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...Although President Bush's Monday announcement of support for Palestinian statehood will be widely interpreted as a concession to Arab sensitivities, there's nothing particularly new about it - a de facto a recognition of the Palestinians' right to statehood has undergirded both U.S. and Israeli policy in the last decade. President Clinton explicitly endorsed the principle late last year, while Israel's last two Labor Party prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, implicitly accepted it as a basis for the Oslo peace process with the Palestinians. Oslo was based on the premise of a "two-state" solution...
...Taliban, despite its de facto sponsorship of terror, wishes to cooperate in the investigation, all the better. But we stand behind President George W. Bush’s statement that closing terrorist training camps and bringing the members of al-Qaeda to justice are not negotiable demands. The use of military force would be justified if it proves necessary to bring the masterminds of Sept. 11 to justice, eradicate the networks of terror, and bring the assurance of security to innocent people throughout the world...
Whatever is built may be seen as a de facto memorial. Says Carol Ross Barney, who designed the new federal building in Oklahoma City to replace the one destroyed in the 1995 bombing: "I don't know if you can build anything that's not a symbol. Every building tells you what people were thinking when they built it." But Oklahoma City erected a separate memorial nearby, and aside from its symbolic presence, says Barney, "there's nothing about the building that specifically commemorates the bombing...
...anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called "rebel music" today is not that there's too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture's liberal definition, that there's way too much. Since the dawn of rock 'n' roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads. All it takes to be a rebel in America, it seems, is to be young and loud. In a music culture where a rebel is the Backstreet Boy with a goatee or the rapper with...
...Green Line border that separates Israel from the West Bank. Israel's concerns are twofold: Not only is such an action likely to draw harsh international criticism and intensify Palestinian pressure on Arafat to avoid cease-fire agreements; it is also unacceptable to Israeli hawks as a de facto recognition that Israel's borders exclude the West Bank settlements...