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Cheever presents a veiled anti-Zionist stance in his article, but he is without foundation. When Cheever writes that "many Arabs feel that they were forced out to make room for Israel," he generalizes the thoughts of some Palestinians and other Arabs who live in Israel and its territories to the entire Arab community, which is nonsensical. Clearly Saudi Arabians, etc., were not forced out of anywhere. Let's not forget that that Israel (including the territories) comprises 28,177 square kilometers, or only 0.4 percent of the entire 7.3 million-square-kilometer Middle East. Even if it could...
...League declared that 'the communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan'... Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same...
...their power to restrict the agenda of the conference, and their participation in it. The Americans and some other Western nations may have focused their reservations on the Israel issue, but there's plenty else on the agenda that has them worried. In a perverse way, the anti-Zionist camp has given the U.S. a pretext for pulling Secretary of State Colin Powell from a conference that will also focus extensively on the legacy of slavery...
...comprehensive peace Rabin and Barak had sought is off the agenda, for at least another generation. In the meantime, Sharon says, Israel will continue to live, as it always has, with a sword in one hand, hammering out clear-eyed interim agreements where possible along the way, while rekindling Zionist education of Israel's youth and attracting another 1 million Jewish immigrants to bolster its defenses...
...raised by Sharon's election is the future of domestic politics and the prospects for rebuilding Israeli national unity. William Safire, who brags that his pal Arik called him first after his victory speech, says Sharon's rise to power signals a "reinvigoration of Zionism." In today's "post-Zionist" world, can Sharon, a greying relic of a bygone era, really revive Israel's national spirit...