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America's liberal democracy has always been about majority rule, but within a framework that guarantees the rights of the minority. Proponents of prayer in school forget about the latter. Pat Robertson claims, "Those men and women who founded this land made a solemn covenant that they would be the people of God and that this would be a Christian nation...
...Sometimes it's better to address some of the multicultural issues within the framework of the [other] panels," Young said...
Flawed or not, the agreement under discussion does illustrate one fact of overarching importance: the peace process continues. His administration may be a mess and the mail may not arrive, but Arafat has managed to keep the framework for talks intact, even though late last year they were at risk of tumbling down. For fear of igniting civil war when he arrived in the Gaza Strip, Arafat was at first permissive toward the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the much smaller Islamic Jihad, the two groups most militant toward Israel. But the soft approach merely emboldened...
Israel and Syria today agreed to resume long-stalled peace negotiationsin Washington late next month, spurred by a U.S.-drawn framework to help resolve their central dispute over the strategic Golan Heights. Under the tentative compromise, the two sides would match one another, move for move, in reducing their military presence in the border region. The resumption of talks marks the first progress in negotiations between Israel and Syriasince they opened the peace process in October 1991. While State Department officials would disclose no details,TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyerreports that each side has accepted a specific...
Israel and Syria today agreed to resume long-stalled peace negotiations in Washington late next month, spurred by a U.S.-drawn framework to help resolve their central dispute over the strategic Golan Heights. Under the tentative compromise, the two sides would match one another, move for move, in reducing their military presence in the border region. The resumption of talks marks the first progress in negotiations between Israel and Syria since they opened the peace process in October 1991. While State Department officials would disclose no details, TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports that each side has accepted...