Word: neither
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...referendum begins by "demanding that Israel end its violations of Palestinian human rights." This assertion of unilateral violations is neither helpful nor accurate. While we acknowledge that some Israeli soldiers have behaved improperly in certain situations, the framers of the referendum do not recognize misconduct on the part of the Palestinians...
...million in first-year funds, haphazardly distributed in hundreds of U.S. cities, so far has done little tangible good. Last February, Reagan signed the Housing and Community Development Act, which provides assistance to 152,000 needy families and authorizes the renovation of 10,000 run-down public-housing units. Neither bill does anything to encourage the desperately needed construction of new low-cost housing...
...appeal is hardly surprising. Israel's so-called government of national unity is widely ridiculed as a mismatch that has locked Israel into a debilitating status quo. Both Labor's Shimon Peres and Likud's Yitzhak Shamir have defined the election in terms of peace and the Palestinians, but neither candidate offers any plausible solutions. Says Abed Darawshe, who defected from Labor to protest the government's handling of the uprising: "The intifadeh ((uprising)) has divided Israel more than ever. The two big parties simply have not convinced the public that they have the answer...
Only about half of the fringe parties are likely to enter the Knesset, but their presence in the campaign forces Likud to veer farther right and Labor farther left. And any party that wins just 1% of the vote -- a mere 17,000 ballots -- is guaranteed a seat. Since neither Labor nor Likud has ever won more than 56 seats in the parliament, the splinter groups wield enormous power when it comes time to form a government...
...head west to El Paso the next day, I think about why these dances are so rare and why both sides seem to misunderstand each other so deeply. "Neither of us ever hears what the other is saying," Octavio Paz once wrote. "Or if we do hear, we always think the other was saying something else." The roots of the two cultures are so deep and gnarled by time that it is not just language that cuts a deep scar across the continent...