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American Catholicism has also undergone some profound internal changes. In the age of immigration, Catholics essentially were strangers in a predominantly Protestant land. Reacting to nativist charges that their spiritual loyalty to Rome was somehow more important than political loyalty to their new homeland, Catholic immigrants and their children sometimes attempted to be superpatriots...
That brand of anti-Zionism which labelled the philosophy behind the Diasporan Jews desire to create a homeland "racist" was one such disguise. Although many groups--including some Jews--opposed the Jewish state for other reasons, anti-Zionism served for many as a new, more defensible appellation for the same old, inexcusable prejudice. Jewish journalist Jacobo Timmerman's Argentine captors and torturers claimed to have no objection to Judaism--only to Zionism--as they subjected him to an electroshock machine and screamed frenetically, "Clipped Prick!" Must recently opposition to Israel's statehood has become an unconvincing disguise, and many anti...
...again on a larger issue, the pursuit of a wider peace in the Middle East. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin once again attacked the Reagan plan. He charged that a Jordanian-Palestinian federation would lead to a "mighty flow of modern weapons" into the newly created Palestinian homeland and a "constant war of attrition" against Israel. By contrast, he argued, Israel could maintain its present occupation and anticipate "a lengthy period of peace, be it contractual or factual." Begin seemed as determined as ever to fight any scheme that would remove the occupied territories from Israeli control. With...
...violation of the fundamental rights of man and society." (Poland's state radio and television censored this criticism in its coverage of the ceremonies.) Next day, facing an audience that included a stone-faced government delegation from Poland, the Pope pleaded for the release of his homeland's political prisoners...
Herzog's compatriots, gimlet-eyed burghers such as Volker Schlondorff, Wim Wenders and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made their mark by refracting the cynical spirit of postwar Germany through a lens as hip as the new Hollywood's. Herzog renounces the rubble and babble of his homeland; none of his nine fiction features is wholly set there. Instead, he is drawn to legends and nightmares. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), a Spanish officer of the 16th century dreams of conquering South America and ends up alone on a raft, blithe and demented, lording it over...