Word: statehooder
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...Patriarchate take over its rival American-based cousin and launch a new globalized Church as his state's main ideological arm and a vital foreign policy instrument. In February press conference, Putin equated Russia's "traditional confessions" to its nuclear shield, both, he said, being "components that strengthen Russian statehood and create necessary preconditions for internal and external security of the country." Professor Sergei Filatov, a top authority on Russian religious affairs notes that "traditional confessions" is the state's shorthand for the Russian Orthodox Church...
...today’s political map looks like a map of the 1860s,” Richardson writes of “West from Appomattox,” because apparently the pro-Union states are now all Democratic and the current Republican states had either not yet reached statehood or were Confederate. The book’s argument is interesting, but ultimately a little too neat. If you’re looking for an understanding of contemporary political conflicts, Richardson can give it to you in just one word: Reconstruction. In the years following the Civil War, the Northern Republicans...
...only if it re-establishes its reputation as a reasonably honest broker. In the past, Washington tilted to the Israelis' side but not so much that the Palestinians couldn't live with it. President Bush has turned the tilt into a slap-down. He says he supports Palestinian statehood, but the Palestinians don't hear the words; they grasp the lack of feeling he evinces for them. They take in the unprecedented silences in Washington when Israeli forces overreact; they wince at White House endorsements of what the U.S. used to call illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
...that is hardly the only impediment: for decades, Israel has blanketed the West Bank with Israeli settlements that make it nearly impossible to create a viable Palestinian state. One of the factors in the continuing intifadeh and Hamas's political rise is Arafat's failure to win Palestinian statehood despite years of peace negotiations after he recognized Israel's right to exist...
Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) A native of Japan, Hirono became a U.S. citizen in 1959, the year Hawaii gained statehood. She's got a clubmate in former Republican Albio Sires (D., N.J.), who was born in Cuba...