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Point two: What is the definition for Palestine? If I look at the Palestinian National Covenant of 1968, only Palestinian Arabs possess the right of self-determination in the country. As long as the covenant practically says that the only way to liberate Palestine is by war, and the only...
PERLMUTTER: You deny the concept of a Jewish national state. We live in an age of national movements. The Jews came to Zion, the [historic] land of the Jews. A Jew from Russia has a right to come to Haifa because it is the Jewish national homeland, as much as...
The Boston statement ends on a note of eloquence. When Hartford-style "spiritual blindness" wins out, it says, "the world as God's, creation is abandoned, sin rules, liberation is frustrated, covenant is broken, prophecy is stilled, wisdom is betrayed, suffering love is transformed into triviality."
No Census. The Moslem strike into the bastion of moneyed power has roots that go back at least to the creation of independent Lebanon. As France was quitting the area in 1943, an unwritten but carefully wrought National Covenant was adopted by Lebanese leaders in an effort to accommodate the...
The landscape is bleak. But the Bicentennial finds some thoughtful Americans seeking a renewed sense of covenant and virtue, even though the concept embarrasses many. Few speak of moral progress or Utopian hopes in a moment like ours. Yet it is possible that today too little is made of those...