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These fears are based on misguided loyalty. Does it make sense to insist on an Israel open to all Jews and not to demand that that same nation act within the bounds of Jewish morals? Is it fair to urge peace between Jews and ignore strife between Jews and Palestinians? There is no mid-way between original principles and no principles; loyalty to a higher conception of Israel requires criticism when the country strays from...
...speak out can only make the situation worse for Israel. Americans will not be convinced to continue support for Israel by Jews who are uncritical; they will only be swayed by those who recognize Israel's faults, as well as its promise. Jews have an obligation to insist on Israel's adherence to higher principles--out of idealism and realism. It is morally right for Israel and politically appropriate for the United States...
...Nicaraguan refugees pouring into Honduras once could count on shelter in U.N.-sponsored refugee camps. Now newcomers who are caught are forcibly returned. Hondurans, with an unemployment rate of about 40%, insist they cannot accommodate this job-hungry tide of dispossessed Nicaraguans. With 12,000 armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support...
Though Honduran officials insist that all the contras must leave their country, they expect that the U.S., reluctant to host the rebels, will ask Honduras to accept some as refugees in return for American aid. Other rebels, especially the field commanders, will probably be allowed to settle in the U.S. The more hardened foot soldiers may dig in for the long haul. Some observers in Tegucigalpa estimate that at least 2,000 rebels with scores to settle and long experience in guerrilla warfare intend to fight...
...party's left wing blames the loss on Dukakis for trying to run from his ideological roots. They insist that, had Dukakis made a cogent defense of liberalism and inspired voters, rather than allowing Bush to distort the word "liberal" into a verbal cudgel roughly equivalent to "child molester," he could have beaten Bush. "Next time," they say, "we shouldn't hide our liberal colors...