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...even this analogy falls flat because it is simply impossible to imagine an America in a position of conflict and vulnerability analogous to Israel's. Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear and knows it." Czechoslovakia is a small nation. Judea was. Israel...
...even have to go back to Lincoln's Civil War suspension of habeas corpus, let alone Sherman's march through Georgia. Consider that during the last Palestinian intifadeh, the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, the British were in charge of Palestine. They put down the revolt "without mercy, without qualms," writes Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami. Entire villages were razed. More than 3,000 Palestinians were killed. In 1939 alone, the British hanged 109. (Israel has no death penalty...
...enforcement to persecute black elected officials. Presumably, the mayor of the nation's capital (not exactly an unemployed ghetto youth, but, absurdly, a role model for unemployed ghetto youths) is not responsible for being in a hotel room with a fashion model, smoking crack. A white conspiracy must have put a pistol to his head and made him do it. Hooks' reaction harmonized with something the late Whitney Young said 23 years ago. Young, then the head of the Urban League, told white leaders, "You've got to give us some victories." But if a victory is "given...
...anybody here play this game? The rules for morning TV have changed & little since they were invented by the Today show back in the 1950s. Put a perky, good-looking couple together on a homey set; mix in a potpourri of news, weather and feature segments; and keep it all going for two hours. Do it right, and you'll grab a sizable share of the audience that can't get through the pre-work hours without some TV chatter percolating in the background...
...they speed toward negotiations. In the euphoria over Mandela's release, expectations threaten to run unreasonably high and trigger a disappointment that will result in violence. Even once all parties come to the table, no road map exists for South Africa's future. No one has put forward a formula that satisfactorily reconciles black demands for one person, one vote with white fears of being dominated -- or tyrannized -- by a black majority...