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...attention to the Israeli behind the curtain. Yasser Arafat opened the new Gaza International Airport Tuesday in a fanfare of publicity, declaring it an important milestone on the road to Palestinian statehood. "But once the emotion has died down and Palestinians realize the airport is another Israeli checkpoint, the response will be different," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...
This is a troubling characterization of the daily maintenance of a potential Palestine. One hopes that those who would like to see a Palestinian state would take a more positive view toward the most basic elements of statehood. The running of day-to-day affairs and the regulation of citizens' activities ought to stand at the heart of any nationalist aspirations, and not be viewed as "dirty work...
...human rights. From this point of view, self-determination requires a certain amount of careful self-monitoring, one might say "suppression," of the violent strains within such a movement. Once again, this sort of watchfulness must not be seen as a toilsome burden. As a nationalist movement fighting for statehood, the Palestinian Authority must accept both these responsibilities. It ought not to see these tasks in the onerous light which Bishara and Fahmawi cast on them. November...
Strangely, it's hard to tell whether Hawaii is the best or worst laboratory in the nation for this unusual political experiment. On one hand, it's a place where the institutions of statehood--constitution, courts, parties--were designed in the 1950s by people who had recently suffered raw discrimination. Asian Americans who remembered the internment camps of World War II, laborers who worked for white plantation owners on the mainland, minority war veterans who fought side by side with white G.I.s who called them names--these folks wrote the constitution in 1950. In it, they enshrined protections for minorities...
Puerto Rico's legislature is likely to vote tomorrow to authorize a plebiscite on future relations with the U.S. Faced with three options -- statehood, independence or a continuation of commonwealth status -- Governor Pedro Rossello and congressional Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of fully joining the union. But Republican concerns over adding a state that's likely to vote Democrat mean that we probably won't be adding a 51st star anytime soon...