For the Middle East, it was a rare moment of restrained confrontation. There, on the stage of the Jerusalem Theater, sat Palestinian Professor Saeb Erakat and two colleagues rationally -- if grimly -- debating Arab-Israeli hatreds with four Israeli politicians. In fact, Erakat indicated that he was speaking his mind more freely than he normally felt he could in Israel. Why? "I think that here," he said, "I'm in ABC territory."
So he was. In Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were...
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