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There are reasons aplenty to be skeptical of the sudden Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic flurry. President Bush and Prime Minister Sharon have never shown enthusiasm for the sort of peace-making they now embrace. Their Palestinian partner, new Prime Minister Abu Mazen, barely clings to power. Their “road map” is full of inconsistencies. Extremists on all sides are…
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Media Moguls Crowd Out Liberal Voices
In the world of media, as in the corporate sector as a whole, the trend is toward the concentration of ownership with ever fewer firms owning and controlling ever greater sectors of the economy. But, in the area of the media, the oligarchy (rule by the few) is, in a sense, a monopoly because a…
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New Islamist Network Seen Emerging From Blasts
As terrorists struck on three continents in an explosive wave of suicide attacks last week and the United States was put on its second-highest level of alert, Western analysts noted growing signs of coordination between Al Qaeda and regional Islamic groups previously seen as unrelated to it, including Hamas. The links, some experts suggested, indicate…
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Report Mulls West Bank Fence’s Impact
JERUSALEM — A World Bank report warns that the security fence being built by Israel will have far-reaching effects on the Palestinians living in the vicinity of the fence to the east of the 1967 border. The report was drawn up at the request of the United States, United Nations, European Union and Norway. So…
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Dem Hopeful: Bush Fiddled In Iraq While Qaeda Rebuilt
Wading into the center of President Bush’s support base in the Jewish community, Democratic presidential hopeful Bob Graham took his hawkish critique of the administration’s war on terrorism to an Orthodox audience in New York this week. The president dropped the ball on Al Qaeda by directing too much attention toward Iraq, Graham told the…
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Hawks Gearing Up for Road Map Fight
WASHINGTON — Angered by a wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel, pro-Israel hawks here are stepping up their criticisms of President Bush’s “road map” to peace, claiming that the violent surge proves the plan’s dangers to Israel. The violence prompted stern warnings to the president from both Jewish and Christian groups opposed to the…
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At a Local Library, A Pro-Nazi Exhibit
This Wisconsin town, with a population of 18,800, is the kind of place where church parking lots fill up on Sundays, people leave their cars running when they duck into the grocery store and residents greet former neighbors like long-lost friends when they come back for a visit. Marshfield, about 200 miles northwest of Milwaukee,…
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Endorsement of Papal Declaration Sought
Jewish communal leaders are seeking the Vatican’s support in a campaign to have national bishops’ conferences around the world endorse a papal denunciation of antisemitism as a sin. The issue was to figure prominently in a meeting in Rome slated for this Thursday between Pope John Paul II and World Jewish Congress leaders Edgar Bronfman…
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Debs’s Heirs Reassemble To Seek Renewed Role as Hawks of Left
Are you a liberal Democrat who supported the Iraq war? Do you want muscular, democratizing Wilsonianism abroad without endless upper-income-tax-cutting at home? Do you want security for the homeland without a union-busting Department of Homeland Security? If I’m speaking your language, then have I got a deal for you! Actually, the Social Democrats, USA have…
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Eye on Jerusalem: A Diplomatic Challenge
Old-timers often express surprising nostalgia for World War II-era Jerusalem, during the British Mandate, when the city was constantly swamped by vacationing foreign troops and exuded an air of vibrancy and cosmopolitanism. Ironically, those were “the good old days,” despite the fact that 60 years later, Jerusalem has become Israel’s largest city by far, the…
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In Sickness and Health (Care): Marrying To Get a ‘Blue Card’
Several days ago I developed a dreadful cough and started feeling feverish. Fearing pneumonia, I rushed home to my boyfriend and said, “Let’s get married!” I am one of more than 41 million Americans who, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, currently live without health insurance, . Nine months ago I left a career as…
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