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...Germans were not passive and helpless witnesses to the Holocaust. Instead, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the perpetrators of the Final Solution were ordinary men and women, workers, merchants and so on, who ravaged the ghettos, brutally supervised the death camps and enthusiastically carried out Hitler's plan to destroy world Jewry. Goldhagen's indictment focuses on the citizenry's complicity in three specific "institutions of mass killing": Germany's police battalions; the so-called work camps in which Jews were incarcerated; and the death marches from those camps by prison guards and their charges near...
...West Bank even with a helicopter." Peres' most potent means of coercing Arafat was the threat of sending Israeli forces "to any corner" to track down terrorists--in other words, back into areas now under Arafat's control. That would be an outright violation of the accords and would destroy Arafat's credibility with his supporters...
REPUBLICANS IN 1996 APPEAR TO BE doing what Democrats did in 1968: allowing extremism to fracture and damage their party. We don't need extremists who want to destroy America to save it. We need some real Republicans to speak out and try to prevent their party from becoming terminal. PRESTON P. BIRENBAUM Woodland Hills, California...
...born of the inability to protect those we love--Megan, the young girl whose name lives on in the law her death inspired, is a case in point--have led us to gloss over complexities and grasp at the closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...
...debate over whether to suspend military operations and focus on taking a share of the power now available under self-rule. Hamas has always been principally a political organization, delivering medical, educational, religious and welfare services to the public. The notion was to await a better day to destroy Israel and meanwhile participate in the game. Then Israel killed Ayyash by planting a bomb in his mobile telephone. That gave the hard-liners what they saw as justification to act. They were moved not only by vengeful anger but by the desire to prove that Ayyash's demise...