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The stayaway gesture is purely symbolic, and not nearly as important to Israel as the billions of dollars in U.S. financial support and weaponry it receives each year. But symbolic gestures do have meaning, and the meaning that most of the Arab world will take from the U.S. boycott of...
Even if the 63 non-contiguous enclaves controlled by Arafat today don't form much of a state, they're a perfect base for insurgency. Oslo has given the Palestinians guns, plenty of them, and zones of control in which their enemy enters only for short periods in heavily-armed...
Of course, the West Bank and Gaza are not Lebanon. The Palestinian territories are entirely surrounded by Israeli forces, meaning that unlike Hezbollah, the Palestinians have no easy access to heavy weaponry. And the Israelis had no emotional attachments to Lebanon, whereas the West Bank is home to a politically...
What is Israel to do? Israel has no great desire to go hunting terrorists. (The current media convention of calling these people militants is a travesty. If the word terrorism does not apply to sending a young man to blow up 21 kids outside a disco, what possible meaning can...
But lately, the lonely August shift has been deluged with news. On Labor Day 1997 it was Princess Diana crumpling her car against a Paris tunnel wall. In 1998 it was the diligence of Ken Starr and the televising of Bill Clinton's "meaning of is" grand jury testimony. Everybody...