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...Jews. In a 1981 letter to the editor of the New York Times, Goldstein echoed the rabbi's call for the forcible expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. "The harsh reality is: if Israel is to avert facing the kinds of problems found in Northern Ireland today, it must act decisively to remove the Arab minority from within its borders," he wrote...
...tremor was sent through U.S.-British relations when Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, was granted a 48- hour visa to visit New York City. There he attended a conference on Northern Ireland and met with groups of supporters. British officials, who opposed President Clinton's decision to allow Adams' visit, were angered that Adams had not explicitly called for an end to I.R.A. violence. Adams repeated his demand that British officials clarify their joint declaration with the Irish government, which promises the I.R.A. a seat at the negotiating table...
Dead Can Dance consists of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, who teamed up 12 years and six albums ago. Theirs is an unusual collaboration. Perry lives in Ireland, Gerrard in Australia; the two trade letters and tapes before going into the studio. "We make records because we still have a lot of demons to exorcise," explains Perry. On The Wind That Shakes the Barley, an 18th century Irish song written to commemorate an uprising against the British, Gerrard's echoing a cappella is like a cold wind blowing over unmarked graves. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) begins with ominous droning and then...
Alcohol made Pete Hamill's father just as absent as Art Buchwald's mother was. The father, Billy Hamill, who came from northern Ireland, had only one leg: he lost the other after it was brutally broken in a soccer game. When Billy came home from the saloons at night to the family's Brooklyn apartment, he would remove his artificial leg along with his trousers. Pete remembers them hanging over a chair in the bedroom and the smell of vomit. He had his first fight when a boy named Brother Foppiano taunted in a singsong, "Your...
...Ireland's druids of drone, U2, go a step further in their concerts: they program and project their own interactive special effects. Bono (or The Edge) will use a remote control to move a cursor (which can be seen on the two huge screens) that allows him to set a song's instruments and tempo. Then the band joins in. The onstage screen shows the choices he has and the decisions he makes. Between songs Bono can regulate four projections of himself; when he clicks on one of them, it will tell a joke, start singing or talk. "U2 love...