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...relationship between American Jews and Israel in terms of ominous overtones of divorce, as Horowitz does in the New York piece, is raising a false prospect: even if the two groups wanted to split with each other, they cannot. In this chapter of our history defined by proud nationhood, all Jews must do our best to support the state of Israel. In turn, Israel should return the favor of making itself truly a state for all the world's Jews to live or to visit...
Australians have been much given to pondering the question of national identity. Was Australia "born" in 1901 when the colonies federated? Or in 1915 when Australian "diggers" (soldiers) landed at Gallipoli? Or was a sense of nationhood forged during the Second World War when a Japanese invasion seemed possible? Or does the onset of a multicultural society mean that nationhood and citizenship in any case need to be redefined...
...small political and economic" groups. "You cannot call them tribes," he says. Yet even if tribalism is an inadequate term, it does speak to an emerging and explosive phenomenon in other parts of the world. Fragmentation, Balkanization, the dissolution of states: at a time of blurry borders and contested nationhood, ethnicity may become the most common--and easiest--organizing principle for nation builders. In the next century, conflagrations of apparent tribalism will not be set off by old ethnic rivalries as much as by contemporary political struggles--struggles that power-hungry leaders will use to inflame tensions among groups. Says...
...they tried. They even dusted off a few patriotic slogans from the past. But somehow, "Workers of the World, Unite!" just doesn't have the same ring anymore. And the old czarist favorite, "Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationhood," lacks that all-important democratic touch. In their report "Russia in Search of an Idea," the Commission delivers a lot of weighty analysis ? try ploughing through chapters like "The Distribution of Metaphors Related to the Understanding of the National Idea" or "The Ideology of Language and the Language of Ideology" ? but not an original notion to be found. Now Boris is left...
...even pass under the mosque renders groundless the claims of the Palestinians that the Israelis are attempting to undermine their religion. The tunnel was clearly a pretext used by the Palestinians as a base from which to launch and ideological battle with the Israelis. In their quest for nationhood, the Palestinian people will be forced to come to terms with the fact that in democratic states problems are solved first through words and not by the sword. The Israeli government has always and will always respect the religious freedom of its minorities, both Muslim and Christian. The Israelis are simply...