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British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind is fond of comparing the conflict over security to the "Chicken or the Egg" paradox. For Netanyahu, though, there is simply no disputing whether peace or security must come first. Netanyahu makes the compelling argument that the only peace that can ever be honored, the only "just and lasting peace" or "peace of the brave" is a peace that is premised first and foremost on security. If the previous government's philosophy was "peace is our only security," Netanyahu can be relied upon to demonstrate that Israeli hopes for peace depend upon security first...
DIED. SIMON RIFKIND, 94, lawyer and judge; in New York City. Rifkind fought for the cream of society and the wretched of the earth. As General Eisenhower's adviser on Jewish affairs, he pushed for aid to Holocaust victims and immigration to Palestine. As a star attorney, he represented Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in actions against probing author William Manchester and prying photographer Ronald Galella...
...perceived wastefulness. America's 31% budget share may be too high, but the U.N. was justifiably stunned when Congress unilaterally slashed the levy to 25%. This month in the General Assembly, a parade of Uncle Sam's allies scolded this delinquency--what British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind called "representation without taxation...
...past few weeks." The British were solidly behind air strikes until, as Defense Minister Michael Portillo said, "the threat to Sarajevo is lifted." Privately, London had been asking Washington to broker a local cease-fire around the Bosnian capital. Now that it is in place, Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind hopes for, if not steady progress, then at least "three steps forward and one step back...
...Rifkind and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher spent the better part of two days together. They talked intensively about Bosnia and eventually agreed on a plan that would call for "substantial and decisive air strikes" if the Bosnian Serbs threatened the U.N. safe haven of Goradze. Once the conference was under way, it took 24 hours to convince the allies that the West had to change the way it did business. That effort eventually bore fruit in the form of several new moves, most of which were hammered out in a series of follow-up nato meetings in Brussels...