Word: weres
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There they were, dancing on the wall, with their cigarettes and miniskirts. These students were spending a typical Friday night doing the atypical. I know I should be there, and frankly, I'm jealous.
Then, (and this one is worst of all) I felt remorse. Until this year, my images of Eastern Europe were of downtrodden men who toiled for The Party and ate watery cabbage soup. Face it: I was weened on the Cold War. I grew up thinking that the way it...
Leaders of the various parties set aside their differences after elections were called in mid-October, but squabbling resumed while the votes were counted.
When John Larew characterizes Americans who support Israel "because it is a Jewish state" as "Zealots," I am reminded of Golda Meir's sharp reply to a critic who asked her if Israel suffered from a "Masada complex" of last-stand heroism. (Masada was the last stand of Palestinian Jews...
These were some of the most powerful motivations behind the creation of the state of Israel, and we are not "Zealots" if we admit it. The fact is that Israel's existence is important for more than ideological reasons. Its fall would involve more than a change in sovereignty, as...