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...teenager in Brooklyn in the early 1970s, raised on stories from my father about hiding from the Nazis in a hole in the earth, I was drawn to the extremist politics of Meir Kahane and his Jewish Defense League. I felt certain I inhabited an anti-Semitic world whose true intentions toward the Jews were unmasked at Auschwitz. I divided all of non-Jewish humanity into only two categories: those who actively try to destroy the Jewish people and those who silently applaud them...
...anyone deserves the dubious title of spiritual leader of the Jewish extremists, it is the late Meir Kahane, the American-born founder of the militant, occasionally violent Jewish Defense League. Kahane moved his operations to Israel in the 1970s, where he began a political movement called Kach (Thus). It wasn't long before Kahane's toxic rhetoric fomented murder. In 1983, during a rally held by the Peace Now leftist group, a lone right-winger--not much different from Rabin's alleged assassin, Yigal Amir--threw a grenade into the crowd, killing one Israeli man. It was the first time...
Lily Feidy doesn't think so. "Who will restart the intifadeh?" she asks. "People are exhausted." Speaking for the Israelis, author Meir Shalev agrees. "This is not a peace of the brave, nor the peace of friends, nor the peace of the wise," he wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronot. "It is the peace of the tired." Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, it may be, have the spirit to return to out-and-out confrontation. But if progress toward a final agreement requires enthusiastic and broad support, it is difficult to see right now where it will come from...
...Heavier drinking, more than two to three drinks a day, increases the risk of death from other causes, such as breast and colon cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, accidents and suicide for women of all ages," Meir Stampfer, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
...recognize the harm and dispossession the Israelis inflicted, and continue to inflict, upon the Palestinians. The existence of any native population in Palestine was problematic to the Zionist myth of "a land without a people for a people without a land." Twenty years after the creation of Israel, Golda Meir, a Prime Minister of Israel, stated: "There is no such thing as the Palestinians...