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...endlessly uneasy but preferred state of affairs in a nation whose front door opens onto the abyss. For 21 years, Israel's leaders have been telling the people that they were ''practically at peace.'' Why rush to negotiate some traumatizing political compromise? Now Shamir's government says Israel cannot negotiate as long as there is trouble in the territories, an argument that would suggest postponing negotiations until three or four weeks after the Last Day. An election scheduled for November may be among the most critical in Israel's history, but it is unlikely to give any candidate a mandate...
...argument that it cannot exist without the West Bank.'' It is almost dark in Harkabi's study. His face almost vanishes in the dusk, and one sees only his nimbus of white hair. ''Jewish wisdom always dealt with interpersonal problems,'' he goes on, ''and not with how a state should live with other states. We must learn to think internationally, to distinguish between grand design and policy. The Arabs' grand design may be still to destroy Israel, but their policy is different. We must deal not with the Arabs' vicious dreams, but with their policies. ''We must reopen the national...
...most blooming, most beautiful and happiest: an old-new nation will flourish in an ancient-new land. Then we shall relate how we fevered and worked, hungered and dreamed.'' Israel seems now a nation in a state of strange suspension. In the Dead Sea, one cannot sink, so dense is the water with minerals. Nor can one swim without difficulty. The water is heavy and bitterly stings the eyes. The body floats in uneasy weightlessness in the blue-green metallic sheen, and one looks off across
...they are a people walking a high ledge,'' says Oz. It is not only fair but necessary to ask if Israel has lost its way. Surrounded by nations that have tried to destroy it in five wars in 40 years, and now engaged in fighting a Palestinian uprising, Israel cannot afford to lose its way. The question of its survival is involved. Arthur Hertzberg, a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, believes something began to go wrong for Israel at the moment of its greatest triumph, the Six-Day War. He argues that while the 1967 victory was splendid...
...there are two other panic attacks under way that should unfold in rapid fashion this week: first, if current trends hold, it may turn out that the Senate cannot even manage a much promised vote on whether the President's "surge" is a good idea. And thanks in part to that, the President's nominee to take over the embattled, overstretched and increasingly underequipped Army - a man who opposed the surge for most of the last year - now may have trouble being confirmed...