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According to Lichtman, the tragedy of the Palestinians is the result of their "betrayal" by the Arab states and the "violent path" of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat. He ignores the fact that there would be no Palestinian diaspora without the actions taken by the various Jewish underground forces in Palestine to frighten, intimidate and physically force the Palestinians to leave. Nor would 25,000 Palestinians and Lebanese, along with more than 500 Israeli soldiers, have been killed in 1982 if Israel had not decided to break the American-arranged truce and invade Lebanon. In addition, Yasir Arafat...
Censorship is a game that makes for underground, intellectual, guerrilla warfare. It puts thinkers and artists in the position of continually devising a strategy to push the limits of what can be said. But for the other kind of censor--the limit of acceptability inside someone's mind--that "strategy" is just another word for innovation...
...horrible choice between an unwanted child and a back-alley abortion. Before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, such abortions were the leading cause of maternal death and disfigurement. And without private insurance coverage, even middle class women may be forced to turn to cheaper, unsafe underground abortions...
...creatures that lived and died under that rock. And since they begin in life's gutter, their fall into the sewer is a boring given. Alex Cox's movie (from a script he wrote with Abbe Wool) is a 111-minute moral limbo dance: How low can you go? Underground, if you want, but don't expect anyone to follow...
...Democrats," said Hoffman, "essentially accept Reagan's policies" because the old Liberals have gone underground and the rest of the Democrats have been sucked into the current age of satisfaction. He added that, in the long run, the Democrats would be forced to take up all the unpopular measures which the President has avoided...