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Stripped of its association with the Arab race, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is an independence struggle between a stateless people and a vastly superior occupying army--not unlike the conflict between Tibet and China. Palestinians are frustrated because they are too weak to win back their freedom. Yet for the most part Americans don't understand why the Palestinians lash out at the Israelis. The reason that Americans don't understand is that they see the Palestinians as part of a hostile mob of Arabs that vastly outnumbers the Israelis. This gives them a distorted picture...
...Germany, which recognizes citizenship by blood rather than territory, refuses to acknowledge him as a citizen, and Lithuania has demanded documentation of his parents' residence that can no longer be found. Although the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has noted that Zadvydas "may in a sense be stateless," the court refused to free him because it is possible that Lithuania or Russia may be persuaded to accept him as a citizen in the future. Moreover, the court concluded, the INS has full power to detain Zadvydas--perhaps forever--until arrangements have been made to send him elsewhere...
...Vatican refuses to condone the use of birth control pills yet unofficially endorses Viagra, prostituting itself to some warped code of priorities. So men are allowed to bang away while women remain sinners. No wonder thinking Catholic women have become religiously stateless, bound by years of indoctrination but alienated by rampant discrimination in the church. JENNIFER TAIT Waverley, Australia...
...been a bitter homecoming. Many were born or have lived most of their life in exile, their families driven from the former Belgian colony after the Hutu ousted the Tutsi elite from power in 1959. In neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Uganda, they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn't know much about Rwanda," recalls rebel leader Paul Kagame...
Concepcion is not alone. She is joined in her daily (and nightly) vigil by her friend William Thomas, whom she met over a decade ago after he was thrown out of Britain for destroying his passport and declaring himself stateless. (Thomas, Concepcion says, is in court on this Wednesday after being arrested for calling the police "fucking fascists...