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Palmer accumulated an impressive guest list for his course, including some of the greatest intellectuals of our time. The most entertaining is undoubtedly the perennially controversial Chomsky, a professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. Chomsky, who has spoken so vocally on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offers his views on an assortment of ideas...
...wing Yisrael Beiteinu (11 seats), a voice for the country's 900,000 Russian immigrants. Several of the smaller fringe parties, such as the Pensioners' Party, may also join the coalition. All these groupings have their own agendas. Labor, for example, says it wants a negotiated peace with the Palestinians. Labor leader Amir Peretz said he is in favor of dismantling Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But this will cause pain among those of his supporters who remember that earlier Labor governments were responsible for building many of the West Bank settlements, where over 250,000 Jews now live...
...Notwithstanding its unspectacular performance, Kadima's victory marks a new chapter in Israel's history. Voters have shown themselves willing to sacrifice the ancient dream of a Greater Israel?stretching from the sea to the Jordan River?and to make room for a separate Palestinian state. That is a painful but pragmatic recognition of realities, as Olmert himself admits. A portion of his election-night speech was directed to his fan in Khartoum?Abbas. "We are ready to compromise and give up parts of our land that we love," Olmert said, "where the best of our sons and fighters...
...stirring stuff. But they don't seem to have cut much ice with Hamas. Leaders of the Islamic party are incensed by a key facet of Olmert's disengagement plan: If Hamas refuses to accept Israel's right to exist, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders without the Palestinians' consent. "Why should we recognize Israel," Aziz Dweik, a Hamas member and the new speaker of the Palestinian parliament, told TIME, "when Israel won't recognize our existence?" Israel, for its part, will not talk to Hamas until the militants abandon their vow to destroy the Jewish state, renounce terrorism...
...three huge errors"-overconfidence, narcissism and underestimating the importance of culture-actually boil down to one: American arrogance. The rest of the world disagreed with plans to invade Iraq, but the Bush Administration thought the world was cowardly. The world, well aware of conditions in Northern Ireland, the Palestinian territories and Kashmir, anticipated chaos in Iraq, but the U.S. government thought it knew best. As that country falls apart, Sullivan needs to ask if Iraq will ever emulate South Africa, Romania or even the Philippines, each a place where democracy germinated because its seed was planted by the populace. Narmada...