Word: derailings
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...Palestinians, they're uncomfortable with the Arab bloc's apparent willingness to scuttle the whole conference by insisting that the harshest possible language on Israel remain in the final document - because the conference declaration must be adopted by consensus, the impasse over Israel and Zionism threatens to derail the entire enterprise. That prompted the Africans and Europeans to work hard on finding a compromise text, but when a Norwegian-authored text that had reportedly been acceptable to Washington proved was rejected by the Arab bloc over the weekend, first the U.S. and then Israel announced their departure...
...unless the damage on the Middle East can be repaired, disputes over how to address slavery and colonialism in the conference declaration may become academic. That would be unfortunate; it would also derail noble efforts to address such traditionally neglected causes as the plight of India's "untouchables" or Europe's gypsies. And the object lesson here may be that although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is of limited strategic importance outside of the Middle East, when left to fester it has a nasty habit of breaking out of those strategic boundaries...
...issue has been revived for the racism conference in order to build diplomatic support for the plight of the Palestinians, and even a number of human rights groups fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under occupation have warned that it's an inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel off the hook on the issue of racism. (Speaking personally, I can understand the impulse to question a principle that allows me, as a South African-born Jew who can trace his origins back into mediaeval Europe, the right...
...newborn in a hip sling hands out oatmeal cookies; moments later, a bunch of yahoos heckles the moderator, asking for equal time. Observing from the sidelines is Dave Hill, vice president of the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, representing powerful logging interests like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew of ranchers show up to forecast in plain terms how the monument will destroy...
However Harvard is making efforts to derail the legislation...