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...works out better than anyone has a right to expect. It has become a cliché to note that New York has more blacks (1,650,000) than Lagos, more Puerto Ricans (910,000) than San Juan, more Jews (1,230,000) than Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa together, more Italians than Palermo, more Irish than Cork, along with Germans, Arabs, Chinese, Eastern Europeans and others. From spring to fall, New York resounds with different ethnic parades. Emigre Tibetans maintain an Office of Tibet on Second Avenue. Then there are the Caucasian-Sircoisian Cultural Center, the Grupo Folklorico Paraguayo...
...General Assembly recommended partition of Palestine into two states: Jewish and Arab. So we now ask today: Where is the Arab state? The Palestinians do not belong to Jordan or Syria or Egypt. They belong to Haifa, Jaffa...
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 Egypt is for an Egyptian. As for the Palestinians, during the British mandate there were no Palestinians. People came from Syria, Egypt or what is now Lebanon who lived in the area called Palestine. You know, if we are going to history, we will never resolve...
However, former Chief of Military Intelligence Chaim Herzog, who represents a minority view, thinks that garrisoning U.S. soldiers in Israel or stationing the U.S. Sixth Fleet at Haifa "makes good sense." After all, he says, "Israel's own deterrent has not prevented the last two wars...
...Robinson Haifa, Israel...