Word: statehooder
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Jinnah’s vision remains the basis for the state I glimpse and desire. It is of a nation aspiring to modern Muslim statehood, yet held back by illiteracy, poverty and mismanagement. In election after election, Pakistanis reject religion as a function of government; indeed, in the four most recent general elections, the combined religious parties have never exceeded 5 percent of the votes cast. In contrast, over this time a woman has twice been elected to lead this country of 140 million. The first time this occurred was also the first time in history that a woman...
...with ideas about sharing Jerusalem. Before Oslo, Palestinians had spent five-years in a state of violent rebellion against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Oslo ended that revolt only because it offered Palestinians a peaceful means of getting rid of the occupation and achieving statehood in exchange for guaranteeing Israel's security...
...Like the Europeans and even Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres, the Saudis believe that a ceasefire won't take hold in the absence of a clearly visible peaceful path to Palestinian statehood. Instead of waiting for the Bush administration to restart political negotiations, Crown Prince Abdullah has stepped into the vacuum by restating the simple proposition that there'll be no long-term peace while Israeli soldiers and settlers continue to occupy the bulk of the Palestinian territory captured...
...sides of the street, chanting against each other, would actually agree on quite a bit. Despite their opposition to the demonstration, most of the counter-protesters to whom I spoke acknowledged that what was happening to the Palestinians was “terrible thing” and that Palestinian statehood was a necessity for lasting peace, even if it meant uprooting some of the settlements in the West Bank...
...that's causing consternation among the Arab allies Washington wants to recruit for a war to topple Saddam Hussein. Other parties mediating the conflict, including Israeli peacemakers such as foreign minister Shimon Peres, have long emphasized that progress depends on linking cease-fire efforts to negotiations over Palestinian statehood. The emergence of the Saudi initiative offers Washington a stalking horse, potentially allowing it to revive political negotiations without appearing to directly reward Arafat...