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...flexible on its plan and that it was meant not as final in most of its elements but as a basis for serious bargaining. The one-month interval between Thieu's resignation and the election, for example, presumably could be expanded in negotiations. More substantively, if the Communists would abandon their insistence that political concessions be linked with any military agreement, the U.S. was ready to let political issues be worked out later. In that case, the U.S. would withdraw its forces contingent only upon the release of prisoners and an area-wide ceasefire. This would include...
...there any things you feel so deeply for that you would abandon your novelist's stance for a Maileresque pose...
...doubt call into question the value of a life whose security can be ensured only be deaths upon deaths. There are moments when such seems to be the situation in Israel: moments when it seems that it must resign itself to being Sparta, a nation of warriors, and abandon the Athenian style. The dilemma is a particularly difficult one for the Israelis because their image and identity which is now evolving is, in a sense, both the fulfillment and contradiction of their historic traditions...
...majority of modern Israelis who, for the most part, have a tendency toward gentle skepticism in religious matters. Yet insofar as the ancient Jews did develop a higher conception of morality in their monotheistic beliefs, it seems for the Israelis to constitute a type of historic betrayal to abandon the unique role which the Jews once played. Indeed the Utopian vision of the Prophets which clearly saw the day "when nation shall not lift up sword against nation..." was an important corollary to the Messianic expectation of Return to the Promised Land, a return fulfilled only by the Zionists...
Lord Chancellor Gardiner put the matter well during the debate that preceded the end of the death penalty for murder in Britain. Speaking of earlier decisions to abandon the grotesque hanging, disemboweling and quartering of traitors, he said: "We did not abolish that punishment because we sympathized with traitors, but because we took the view that it was a punishment no longer consistent with our self-respect." It would be welcome, in a time of diminished self-respect, to take this particular step toward reasserting...