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...resolutions. More importantly for Yasser Arafat, it signals overwhelming international support for his planned declaration of independence next year. But if international consensus counted for anything in the Middle East, the state of Palestine would be two decades old. The decisions that count are made in Washington, where Palestinian statehood still remains a taboo topic...
...have mixed feelings about Israel's celebration of its 50 years of statehood [WORLD, May 11]. The founding of the nation signified a birth to Jews but a burial to the Palestinians. Over time, Zionist terrorism was replaced by Palestinian terrorism, and war and grief were never far away. The perpetual threat of conflict forced increases in Israeli defense budgets and made enormous economic support by the U.S. necessary. Against all odds, foreign and internal, the Israelis have managed to build and uphold the most democratic country in the Middle East. However, Israeli society is more torn than ever before...
While many eyes will be on the parades in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this spring and summer to mark Israel's five decades of statehood, there is an equally important nation to monitor: Algeria. As this letter is being written Algeria is teetering on the verge of disaster. Its civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives, and we could very well be looking at an Iranian-like fundamentalist regime in that part of the region within two or three years...
...people are sweating, fighting and dying to establish a secure home for all of the Jewish people--a home in which the Jew does not yet, but may some day, desire or need to live. A safe home ideology may not be the most lofty ideal for Jewish statehood, but in this post-Holocaust age, it is a political necessity nonetheless. Evidence of this in our generation can be seen in an article by Crimson editor Adam J. Levitin, "The El-Al Exodus Scenario," published on the web zine Muskeljuden (www.westegg.com/muskeljuden). Levitin proposes half-comically that El Al airlines...
...Herzfeld resigned from theeditorial board of the Cambridge University Pressover the publisher's decision not to print a bookby Greek scholar Anastasia Karakasidou on thesubject of Macedonian statehood...