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...more meaningful argument for a Jewish state is that put forth by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl a century ago: the normalization of the Jewish people. Herzl's dream of a sovereign Jewish nation was realized some 50 years later in 1948, and today the state of Israel thrives as a Jewish land. In Israel, Jews are not a minority, so no one questions whether there are too many Jewish columnists on a newspaper, for example. In Israel, the Jew is Jewish regardless of his religious beliefs, so whether or not one attends a synagogue is irrelevant to his membership...
...constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered continued negotiations with the opposition on replacing the country's current interior minister, and TIME's Theodor Troev reports from Sofia that several Socialist leaders have already proposed passing their governing mandate to the opposition party, possibly to form a coalition government. Ivan Kostov, head of the main opposition, said his party would end its 21/2-week boycott of parliament in hope of a compromise. "If there...
...conference, which opened Tuesday with a series of lectures at Brandeis University, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the publication of Theodor Herzl's work, Der Judenstaat, which was the first expression of modern political Zionism...
...idea of evacuation was not new in Zionist thinking. Theodor Herzl, in hisDiaries, made the following statement regarding the Palestinian natives: "We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly...
Crimes in all three categories have been documented in Bosnia. "The credibility of international humanitarian law demands a tribunal to hold accountable those responsible," says Theodor Meron, professor of international law at New York University Law School. He suggests that such trials "should deter those who envisage 'final solutions' to their conflicts with ethnic and religious minorities." Says Tilman Zulch, director of Germany's Society for Threatened Peoples in Gottingen: "I think we have to show that we've learned something. We have to show where genocide leads...