Word: nationhood
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Mixed in, largely unnoticed, among the thousands of East Germans making the trek westward was a handful of Rumanians and Soviets. That trickle could portend problems for all of Europe. While the Germans are a special case with their historic claims to a single nationhood, other East Europeans are eyeing Hungary's hole in the Iron Curtain and fantasizing about life on the other side...
AFTER all the narrative, Friedman finishes with two recommendations. Israel should never forget that its own nationhood, more than the Torah, is the spiritual glue for Jews all over the world. Israel should avoid measures, such as efforts to strictly define who is a Jew, that could isolate Jews abroad. Secondly, Friedman emphasizes that despite the apparent hopelessness of the situation, the United States can help the Middle East escape from its conflicts...
What makes Lebanon's current predicament more hopeless than ever is the disintegration of the presidency. Somehow the office had survived previous crises nominally intact as the main symbol of Lebanese nationhood. But when President Amin Gemayel's six-year term expired in September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...
...Dutch greeting is regarded as the first formal recognition of American nationhood by a foreign official. But to suggest that a maritime salutation could set in motion events that altered the world would seem to require a well-stocked imagination and a keen dramatic instinct. Readers of The Guns of August (1962), The Proud Tower (1966) and A Distant Mirror (1978) have good reason to know that Barbara Tuchman possesses both in abundance. Yet she has never reduced history to simple causes and effects. Her books resemble jigsaw puzzles: start anywhere with any fragment and one can eventually assemble...
...drawn but no honor satisfied. The participants became public heroes and martyrs, but privately their failure bred resentment, which thrived on blame, which in turn sought enemies within. They were not in short supply, given the tangle of feudal alliances and tribal betrayals that confounded the ideals of nationhood. The wounds of Clonbrony festered and spread violence and discord for decades...