Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...been an article of faith held by every government of Israel since the Jewish state was founded: no matter how much American Jews might disagree with Israeli policy, they could be counted on not to make their criticisms public. No more. The American Jewish community has become a house divided -- and sometimes loudly so -- over Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the occupied areas and its reluctance to pursue a comprehensive settlement that finally might bring peace to the region...
...concern for Israel's safety puts Jewish critics in a poignant bind. They agonize over how to make their feelings known without endangering Israel's strength, capitulating to anti-Semitism or giving demagogues in the Knesset an excuse to make the conduct of American Jews an issue in Israeli elections...
...when he visited Washington last January. According to an important Jewish leader, Rabin returned to Jerusalem with a message for Israel's inner Cabinet: "This year's money is safe, but there will be a future problem unless Israel meets with the Palestinians and shows a willingness to make peace...
...conspiracy theory is that they see the deficit as a way to hold down spending. But here is an alternative conspiracy theory: interest on the debt is a $179 billion social-welfare program for owners of capital, who tend to be conservatives. Or, at least, all those interest payments make the thought of the Government's going deeply into debt more acceptable to certain people than the alternative: that the Government might pay its way through progressive taxation...
...1980s were an orgy of borrowing, as we know. But for every borrower there is a lender. The share of all personal income that comes from interest payments has risen a quarter in the past decade -- from 12% to 15% (an estimated $688 billion in 1990). Dividends as well make up a slightly larger share than in 1980, wages a slightly smaller share. This helps explain all the figures showing that income inequality increased dramatically during the 1980s...