Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) is being coy about his latest trip to Japan. While his previous trips have all attracted controversy, this one is sparking additional fireworks because of Lee's presence at the Yasukuni shrine.

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By Thomas Huang 黃維幸
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party (PFP) legislators have tied the passage of the draft amendment of the Central Election Commission Organic Law (中央選舉委員會組織法) to the annual budget bill. This has meant that the budget bill has been stuck in the legislature's Procedure Committee for more than six months without review. This violates the Budget Act (預算法), which stipulates that the legislature has to finish its review at least one month before the beginning of the fiscal year.

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By Woo Rhung-jieh 吳榮杰
Recently the legislature passed controversial changes to articles of the Farmers' and Fishermen's Association Law (農漁會法).

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A new light rail line will connect Jewish and Palestinian areas in East Jerusalem. But will it affect the possibility of a two-state agreement?
By Isabel Kershner
Dig nearly anywhere in this city and you hit the remains of an earlier civilization. One of the latest such finds is a narrow strip of antiquity that runs down the middle of a main road through what is now Shuafat, a Palestinian neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. Soon it will be covered by tracks for a light railway, part of a new mass transit system for the city. Both the history being unearthed and the planning under way are filled with the kind of controversy that seems to be a Jerusalem specialty.

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By SHLOMO BEN-AMI
Forty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights after a lightning six-day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Today, ending the occupation of Palestinian territories that began that June seems as distant a dream as ever.

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By Shimon Peres
Forty years after the Six Day War peace between Israelis and Palestinians seems as distant as ever. Israel still refuses to accept the new Palestinian national unity government as a negotiating partner because Hamas is part of that government. What is the cause of this seeming paradox? Is there any hope?

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To the American people and the US Congress:

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