Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinian officials to quit the peace talks. Two weeks ago, the Israelis promised Arafat what Environment Minister Yossi Sarid called ``a very deep freeze, one with no nonsense.'' But after the Beit Lid massacre, the government approved the construction and sale of 4,000 units in occupied land around Jerusalem. Says Mohammed Subieh, the Cairo-based general secretary of the P.L.O.'s parliament-like Palestine National Council: ``Rabin has put us in a bad position. He is not helping himself...
...would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than the Gaza Strip and the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it hopes to make the Palestinian capital...
Establishing final borders and resolving the question of Jerusalem, which Israel wants to keep united and under its control, are easier said than done. But so is completing the half-measure interim agreement that is meant to be temporary in any event. These two parties are ready for a divorce. The longer they stay together in a strained union, it seems, the tougher it is to agree on terms...
...still, there are quibbles. Why a whole ground floor without any place to hang a picture or put a sculpture? Of course, museums think they have to sell tons of souvenirs, T shirts, replicas and cultural-tourist boutique stuff; it's like the religious-kitsch racket in Lourdes or Jerusalem. The entrance foyer duly gives onto the shop and a meeting room and a children's art studio and a conference theater; the architect calls the foyer an internal piazza, but its main use is probably for giving parties-just as, in New York City, the giant glass hangar containing...
...without suffering any ill effect. At a time when the heavy moral lifting was thought best left to men, Arendt bench-pressed the weight of the world in books with such grave titles as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind. Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) gave the world a deeply disturbing concept, "the banality of evil." "Who does she think she is, Aristotle?" cracked an editor at Partisan Review...