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Opinion Speaking Out on Iraq
History almost certainly will judge President Bush by the ultimate success or failure of his decision to invade Iraq. But American Jews already have decided: About 70%, according to a recent poll, think the war was a mistake. Jewish organizations — the entities that wield political power in the community’s name — are another matter….
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Opinion Drawing the Line on Iran
A spate of recent controversies has shined a spotlight on European efforts to strike a balance between protecting freedom of speech and preventing a revival of the ultranationalist extremism that triggered World War II. In each case — the Muslim riots over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the sentencing of Holocaust denier…
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Opinion No Exit
It may be true that the emerging crisis in the Palestinian territories, as Hamas takes over the legislature, could have been avoided if all sides had acted with more foresight while there was still time. Israel could have been more generous toward the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, so as to strengthen him and his…
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Opinion The Shooting
After 48 hours of nationwide hilarity, discussion of Dick Cheney’s hunting accident turned suddenly somber on Tuesday afternoon. That’s when America learned that the man Cheney shot, Texas attorney Harry Whittington, had suffered a heart attack. A pellet from the vice president’s shotgun had lodged in the lawyer’s heart. At that moment, Americans were forced…
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Opinion The Cartoon Jihad
If history had turned out differently, Iranian troops might now be patrolling the alleyways of Chicago and Las Vegas, busily confiscating pornography, breaking up drug gangs, checking teenagers’ skirt lengths and helping us to recapture the moral core we lost a generation ago. Some Americans, dismayed at the relentless coarsening of our public and private…
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Opinion The Friedan Mystique
No greater tribute can be conferred on a revolutionary than the privilege of living to see one’s revolutionary ideas taken for granted as commonplace truisms. Betty Friedan, who died on her 85th birthday February 4, had that privilege. Like few other figures in recent history, she introduced a transformative concept that changed the way we…
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Opinion A Nation of Immigrants
It was President Kennedy who said that America is “a nation of immigrants.” What else could it be? Unless you are a descendant of one of the native “Indian tribes,” you are either an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant. Despite this obvious truth, immigration has been a perplexing problem in every generation. Repeatedly,…
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Opinion You Wouldn’t Know
Watching President Bush deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress and the nation this week, it was hard not to notice the subdued, almost chastened tone of his delivery. Gone were the trademark winks and expansive body language that have characterized his public appearances for years. He was, like his message, restrained,…
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