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...many Israelis, both Jews and non-Jews, and Kawar is correct in nothing that Israel has complications in defining its national identity. But to characterize Israel as a theocracy represents a simplification of the myriad elements of identity at play: Jewish religious identity, Jewish ethnic identity and Israeli Statist identity. The fact that academia, the press, the public and the parliament (where both Arab and Jew are represented) can debate issues like the Law of Return reveals that Israel is a democracy in which supreme power is held by the people. To lump Israel with its neighboring anti-democratic governments...
...Zyuganov's collection of Russian communists, the emphasis on the word Russian is perhaps heavier than on the word communist. In building a new statist movement, Zyuganov seems to be readying another version of the red-brown--that is, communist-nationalist--alliance that shook the democrats in parliament a few years ago. Zyuganov is calling on all "patriots" to rally around his banner in the cause of a powerful Russian state, an alternative to the West. His basic appeal is to all who feel anger, pain and shame at the demise of the great Soviet Union and the decline...
...Marxist nationalists and anti-Western and pan-Slavic ideologues. This is not something completely new for communists. Even in the heyday of Soviet power, there were two tendencies in the leadership. The internationalist wing of the party put Marxist revolutionary goals above Soviet national interests. The opposing "statist" group--followers and admirers of Stalin--put Russia first. So do they...
...runoff, he has a reasonable chance of returning to office, but he faces a daunting battle to survive the first cut. His approval ratings barely make it into two digits, his policies are under siege, and his health is shaky. He has succeeded in wrenching his nation from its statist past, but he has failed to shove it into a stable and prosperous capitalist future. Corruption, chaotic change and arbitrary rules are exploited by criminals and a class of well-connected nouveau riche, while ordinary Russians seethe over lost jobs, unpaid wages and a widening gap between rich and poor...
Candidate Clinton promised to be a New Democrat, free from the statist left wing of the party. But President Clinton, with the notable exception of NAFTA, has opted to fight the free market and pursue an interventionist economic agenda...