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...than-400 Palestinians expelled from Israel in December held a protest marking a month in exile. On the same day, the Israeli High Court opened a hearing on the legality of the deportations. This after-the-fact trial exemplifies the glaring injustice that has guided Israeli actions both in regard to the deportations and throughout its occupation of Palestinian lands...
...double standard that allows in Israel what it condemns in any other country. Faced with the deportations and the recent military action against Iraq, several Arab governments as well as many others have pointed out the discrepancy between the speed and force with which U.N. resolutions are enforced with regard to Iraq and the way in which the resolutions regarding Israel are never enforced...
...political honeymoon is a period during which a politician can say and do the most outrageous things and get away with them. In most respects, Clinton has nothing on his predecessors in this regard. Backing off on his promise to cut the White House staff 25% (which he appears to be doing), or asserting his highest regard for Washington's public schools while enrolling his daughter in a private academy, is small-bore stuff -- par for the course and unremarkable. But Clinton is breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit. The President-elect's insistence that the latest...
However done, intervention would mark the most stunning shift yet from the old doctrine that anything happening within a nation's borders is no business of foreign powers. The fighting in Bosnia and Croatia could be regarded as international, since these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite...
While it seemed that Clinton had merely adapted his campaign techniques to * reflect the fact that many people take their cues from television talk shows, he had actually (and typically) studied the problem of changing perceptions quite rigorously. A treatise Clinton has found particularly useful in this regard is Reich's book The Power of Public Ideas. The central tenet of Reich's argument is contained in two sentences: "The core responsibility of those who deal in public policy . . . is not simply to discover as objectively as possible what people want for themselves . . . It is also to provide the public...