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...should just find some other country to live in reminds me of those who said that African-Americans should go "back to Africa." There is a certain idea about race behind both suggestions. "Back to Africa" fails to recognize that Africans in Africa and the United States belong to distinct peoples each with their own history, culture and institutions. There is no reason to think that African-Americans belong or fit in better in Africa than they do right here in America. Similarly, "back to Arabia" misses the fact that, like the Africans, the 200 million Arabs in the Middle...
...whatever you might think about these concessions to Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, perhaps this much is clear: these are not concessions to the Palestinians. Each of these countries represents a distinct people with a distinct set of claims against Israel. To see their claims as one long list of "what the Arabs want" reflects a certain way of thinking about the people involved, namely that they are all the same--concessions to some are concessions to the others. But any real measure of Israeli concessions to the Palestinians should focus on the central claims of the Palestinians--sovereignty over...
...them. No on watching had the sense that Yemen is over a thousand miles from Ramallah over the Arabian desert and that few Palestinians have ever even seen Yemen. (By contrast, British news agencies like the BBC and ITN were very careful to treat these news items as distinct events from different regions of the Middle East...
...Middle" soundtrack, pushed TMBG's usual style, taking the emphasis off the lyrics and focusing more on a straight-out rock sound. The latter song, co-written with M. Doughty, former lead singer of Soul Coughing, displayed the band's artful ability to keep its own very distinct flavor while integrating new styles and new players...
Clearly, knitting at Harvard has a distinct 21st century edge to it. Distressed, I promptly pressed the incident out of my mind, assuming it to be an isolated incident...