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...Jew? Talmudic scholars, rabbinical courts and even the Israeli Cabinet have long argued the question...
...WRITING in A Woman Named Solitude is so surely tied to the psyches of its characters that this chronicle of slave revolt in 18th century Guadeloupe is nothing like a parade of piteous horrors. Andre Schwarz-Bart, a French Jew who survived Nazi camps and Resistance fighting and has already given us one masterpiece, gets into the mindscape of each French colonial and transplanted African tribesman. He dramatizes their religious and political tensions with precise evocations of war and ritual, and he compresses his narrative to unsentimental essentials. The book is both poem and protest; more than a simple howl...
...oppression" of those Arabs now living in Israel (oppression so harsh that the standard of living of those Arabs who remained in Israel from 1948 is now among the highest of any group in the Mideast). This fact is the record of Palestinian terrorism against both Arab and Jew over the past 25 years. Patience and hard work are required to solve the problems of the Mideast -- qualities which Israel, certain elements notwithstanding, has always been willing to provide. But in the face of continued Palestinian demonstrations of "good faith" like Munich, how can the Jews be anything but patient...
...exiling or imprisoning him. He has no recourse apart from appealing to the Chief of Staff; there is no civilian authority or judge. He cannot even find out what he is supposed to have done wrong. This system of laws is racist in that it is applied to non-Jews and is used as a form of harassment; if an Israeli Jew or Arab is suspected of spying, he is tried in civilian courts...
...national self-determination or even their existence and human qualities will never and should never be accepted by Arabs. Golda Meir said at Brandeis on March 6 that in Palestine there was a meeting "of an unwanted people with an unwanted land." Other Israelis demand that security for Israeli Jews requires the realization of rather than the denial of justice for Palestinians. The question for Americans is not whether one is "pro" or "anti" Israel, but whether one supports Israeli doves or Israeli hawks. Israeli and American Jews have to answer a simple question: Does a Palestinian born in Haifa...