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...lack of experience, but experience alone doesn't prove anything about a candidate's ability to serve as President. Consider a former President who, like Obama, hailed from Illinois, lacked a long career in national politics and wasn't favored to win his party's nomination. His name was Abraham Lincoln. Bo Tuerk Golden, Colorado...
...Palestinian and Jew, memory is a profound influence, a medium of hope, but something else as well. Each has felt the passionate ache of nostalgia for the same land. In the circumstances, memory is sometimes a fanatic and a poison. Observant Jews believe God gave Abraham title to the land of Israel sometime in the Bronze Age. The Book of Genesis declares, ''The Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.'' The more secular deed, in modern times, was the Balfour...
...Israeli psychology began to shift away from the old predisposition to negotiate. A British governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ronald Storrs, once referred to the ''mystic, the almost frightening, metallic clang of Zionism.'' With the election of Menachem Begin in 1977, the strain of biblical nationalism, the manifest destiny of Abraham's covenant, came parading through the Israeli mind. It was a triumphal Messianism that now justified the occupation, making it not only permissible but also inevitable. The West Bank became, to Begin and his supporters, the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria. Arabs or no, God meant the Jews...
...lack of experience, but experience alone doesn't prove anything about a candidate's ability to serve as President. Consider a former President who, like Obama, hailed from Illinois, lacked a long career in national politics and wasn't favored to win his party's nomination. His name was Abraham Lincoln...
...support for National Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile, were outraged that GM paid about $60?or twice the going market rate?for each of Perot's series E shares. One stockholder, Abraham Duman of Highland Park, Tll., filed a suit against GM, claiming that its directors had violated their fiduciary responsibility by paying such an enormous sum to Perot...