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LEXINGTON, Mass.—In this small town most known for its “shot heard round the world,” local history is a town pastime, and for some, a serious hobby. Here local history tends to take the form of attempts to reconstruct a romanticized past...
Faisal Chaudhry writes of the American and Israeli desire to “reconstruct the ideological framework” of the Middle East situation, while creatively framing the same article with a conversion into a “white” vs. “brown” struggle (Op-Ed, “An Ideology of Oppression,” April 11). At one point, Chaudhry even compares the situation to apartheid. This is a distortion of the fact that most Israelis and Palestinians are indistinguishable physically...
...this relationship grows unbearably vivid, it is not surprising that some of the educated classes in the U.S. grow more desperate to reconstruct the ideological framework needed to justify the country’s determining role in maintaining this disparity, much to the misery of Palestinians and Israelis. Overall, this ideological task is transparent. First comes the staid narration of the fall of Oslo because the Palestinians inexplicably refused the magnanimous “Barak Plan” giving the Palenstinians “90 percent of the West Bank.” Obscured are the actual terms...
TIME: Can you imagine British troops contributing to stability through long-term peacekeeping? BLAIR: No. You can't determine exactly the precise moment when our role ends, but it's not our job through troops to reconstruct Afghanistan...
...Northern Alliance thought they had cleared it of all Taliban resistance. It has sent a chill through all the journalists here, as well as the Afghan drivers, interpreters, military commanders and officials we have been working with. Below is an account of what happened, as best we can reconstruct it from the journalists who survived and the Afghan soldiers who were with them...