Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...greatest value is political. "If they never fire a shot," says Jeffrey Record, a Washington military analyst, "they are worth their weight in gold." But the idea of an alliance with the U.S. grates on many in Syria, and the official press is protesting increased American arms shipments to Israel...
...Israel's troubles with the U.N. keep growing. Last week Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar proposed a direct Security Council role in protecting Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a report ordered by the council after 20 Arabs were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians...
Unlike Britain's Margaret Thatcher or Israel's Golda Meir, Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro claimed power not through proven political skills but on the strength and symbolism of their family ties. For much of the Third World, the idea of the nation-state has not evolved too far from the idea of kingdoms; rulers are still heads of extended tribes or vast families, rather than chief executives of the machinery of government. Politics very often pits clan against clan, all the way from Machiavellian patriarchs to the wives and daughters, whose chief duty is still procreation and the maintenance...
...nation's feminists still hope to end the suffering of the Agunot. Alice Shalvi, chairwoman of the Israel Women's Network, wants to strengthen the civil courts by giving them the power to threaten husbands with financial penalties and even arrest them if they refuse to release their wives from broken marriages. In Israel's volatile political climate, that seemingly sane proposal stands little chance of success...
...matter of Saddam's ultimate designs. From his assumption of power in Iraq in 1979, Saddam has sought regional hegemony: if not by outright territorial conquest, then by the application of military muscle to dictate oil-production quotas, pricing arrangements and regional diplomacy. Beyond that, Saddam's animosity toward Israel remains unappeased. Without his military might, Saddam is just another bit player...