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...Shamir would quell the intifadeh, which has taken the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and seven Israelis since December 1987, remains uncertain. He might push autonomy in an attempt to disarm the rebellion but forestall any grander political or territorial concessions. If nothing else worked, he might reverse his previous opposition and adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from...
...tend to be political watersheds. The choice of John Kennedy in 1960 ushered in a brief but turbulent Democratic revival marked by domestic idealism, the triumph of the civil rights movement and then the agony of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon's victory in 1968 heralded two decades of conservative rebellion against domestic spending programs, social activism and liberal permissiveness that culminated in Ronald Reagan...
Israelis voted in an atmosphere of violencecreated by the Palestinian rebellion coupled witha sudden outburst of attacks on Jewish civilians...
About 80 percent of the 2.9 million eligiblevoters turned out, reflecting the galvanizingeffect of the rebellion, which has killed 10Israelis and more than 300 Palestinians since itbegan...
...created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea of the artist as an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study what Balzac, in a famous phrase that declared its rebellion from the theological order of Dante's Divine Comedy, called La Comedie Humaine...