Word: statehooders
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...axiom of statehood that war is what dictates borders; winners get the right to draw new lines. After World War I, as the Great Powers meted out geographical punishments and rewards, Woodrow Wilson advocated two principles that have governed statemaking ever since: the right to self-determination and the right to inviolable national borders. Unfortunately, they are often in conflict...
Then there's her Jewish problem: she will have to explain to Jewish groups what she really meant last year when she called for Palestinian statehood. In the TIME/CNN poll, half of Jewish voters, who account for 10% of the state's registered voters, say they disagree. While most say her position wouldn't be sufficient reason to vote against her, Giuliani--who won 7 of 10 Jewish votes in 1997--is already exploiting the issue; last week he slapped her for "siding with the Palestinians against the Israelis." This is, after all, the man who in 1995 had Yasser...
...This is an unscientific, informal survey for the interest and enjoyment of TIME.com users," goes the disclaimer below the Kurdish statehood poll, "and may not be indicative of popular opinion." But that's overly apologetic. Online polls -- all online polls -- are unscientific in that they're not random samples of the population. Instead they self-serve: They measure how many people cared enough about the issue to take the time to find the poll and pick a side, and they're dead-on scientific about that... until robots attack. "The more popular the poll, the more trouble we have defending...
According to a senior official of the Palestinian Authority, YASSER ARAFAT has agreed to postpone the declaration of Palestinian statehood he has repeatedly threatened to make on May 4, the date the interim Oslo peace accords expire. The timing became problematic once the Israelis scheduled elections for May 17. As much as Arafat may abhor the idea of allowing Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU to crow that his tough positions forced the Palestinian leader to back down, he fears a declaration would inflame Israeli passions and thereby help Netanyahu's re-election efforts...
Meanwhile, European diplomats are pushing a plan whereby the Palestinian people would finally get to vote in municipal elections in April as compensation for delaying the statehood declaration. Arafat, says the source, has put off such voting, fearful that Muslim radicals would perform well and thus further challenge his authority...