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...problem of race in Washington. When it comes to race, gender, and other areas, government continues to be diversity-deficient. As long as the country remains hesitant to elect Latinos, Arab-Americans, or others, we will never be able to declare that we have broken that last racial barrier??indeed, the election of an African-American to the White House can really only represent the first. We must build on its momentum, not lend it a language of finality...
...knowing which turns are more interesting than others, to spend a lot of time seeing America. A century of inspired roadbuilding blessed this country with an impressive asphalt grid begging for travel. There are no passport tangles to worry about, the currency exchange is easy, and the language barrier??excepting a few regional absurdities—is nonexistent...
Though the activists criticized Ashkenazi's role in building the separation barrier??saying it has been “universally condemned as illegal by the international community”—they emphasized that his actions in southern Lebanon were more problematic. As the “effective supervisor” of the South Lebanon Army (SLA), and later as head of the Israeli Northern Command, they charged, Ashkenazi was responsible for many of the abuses that occurred in the occupied Lebanese territories...
Furthermore, the PSC’s ad states that “47.6% of West bank [sic] land” will be “annexed into Israel.” The reality, as reported April 19 in the New York Times, is that the barrier??s route leaves no more than 8 percent of the West Bank on the Israeli side. The PSC also claims that 9.7 percent of Palestinians will be cut off from “cultivated lands” by the barrier, but the real number, as reported in the same article...
Furthermore, Israel has no intention of annexing any portion of the land which the security barrier puts between itself and the Green Line—the political boundary between Israel-proper and the West Bank. Israel has maintained that the barrier??96 percent of which is an easily movable chain link fence—is not a unilateral statement of final borders between it and a future Palestinian state. The fence is designed to include the maximal number of Israelis on one side and the maximal number of Palestinians on the other in order to maximize its effectiveness...