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...kind of surrender.'' But Israel over the years has hardened into the style of its region. ''Security'' in the Israeli lexicon is an emotionally charged absolute. Soon after Golda Meir took office in 1969, the Israeli psychology began to shift away from the old predisposition to negotiate. A British governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ronald Storrs, once referred to the ''mystic, the almost frightening, metallic clang of Zionism.'' With the election of Menachem Begin in 1977, the strain of biblical nationalism, the manifest destiny of Abraham's covenant, came parading through the Israeli mind. It was a triumphal Messianism that...
Olmert is slightly uneasy about his Foreign Minister's new joint venture. Livni has made it known that she wants to follow in the footsteps of Israel's only other female Foreign Minister, Golda Meir, by becoming Prime Minister someday. Bush, on the other hand, has no such competitive worries about Rice. If she succeeds in creating a Middle East legacy other than the morass in Iraq, so does...
...DIED. Oriana Fallaci, 77, fearsome, glamorous Italian journalist renowned during the 1960s and '70s for her war reporting and aggressive interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe...
DIED.Oriana Fallaci, 77, fearsome, glamorous Italian journalist renowned during the 1960s and '70s for her war reporting and aggressive, revealing interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe and declaring that "sons of Allah breed like rats...
...security to terrorize Israelis. In the case with Egypt, Anwar Sadat was so committed to a solution with Israel that he was willing to alienate himself from the rest of the Arab world in order to bring about peace. Until the Palestinians generate leaders that, in the words of Golda Meir, “love their children more than they hate Israel,” there will be no peace...