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...have to be divided along demographic lines.” However, he pointed out that at the Camp David peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in 2000, the status of Jerusalem was not problematic. Instead, the major stumbling block then was the “right of return?? of Palestinian refugees displaced by the 1947-49 war and their descendants. Rejecting the possibility of this right being implemented, Dershowitz suggested that the aim of Palestinian leaders in advocating it was to “demographically destroy Israel” by flooding the country with four million Palestinians...
...several weeks now there have been quiet (and not so quiet) rumblings from the Bush-Cheney politburo about that perennial conservative darling—the “flat tax.” And this talk about corporate loopholes? Not unless Corporate America’s getting something in return??and no doubt they would...
List Professor of Jewish Studies Jon D. Levenson ’71—who has expressed concern about the gift and signed a petition organized by Fish urging the money’s return??praised Harvard for arriving at this decision even though “the financial pressures pushed in the opposite direction...
...refugees, the accord spells out the kind of bitter compromises that an eventual peace will require. Palestinians would control a demilitarized state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with sovereignty over Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, while abandoning the so-called right of return??the option for Palestinian refugees to resettle inside Israel. In the West Bank, Israel would retain settlements containing 75 percent of Jewish settlers in exchange for an equal amount of Israeli land for Palestine. Had the controversies over Jerusalem, borders and settlements been addressed in isolation, talks would have...
...line: Duranty’s is an extraordinary case of second-hand propaganda masquerading as real journalism. Rarely, if ever, has a Western reporter so consistently trumpeted the party line of a brutal dictatorship. It is perhaps too much to hope that the Times would voluntarily “return?? Duranty’s prize, as the Washington Post returned Janet Cooke’s prize in 1981. And yes, no Pulitzer has ever been outright revoked. But it’s hard to fathom another instance where the Pulitzer Board has made, or will make, such...