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Opinion Note to Our Readers
The Forward newspaper and its editor in chief, J.J. Goldberg, announced this week that Goldberg is scaling back his editorial duties and assuming the newly created position of editorial director. Goldberg will continue to write the Forward’s editorials and oversee its overall editorial content, while other staff members will assume many of the management and…
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Opinion Why Annapolis Worked
In the end, the Annapolis peace conference proved to be far less than the cataclysmic, watershed event that its sharpest critics had predicted. It unfolded, to everyone’s surprise, with very little upheaval. And for that reason, it might yet turn out to be far more than the pointless flop anticipated by the world-weary wise men….
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Opinion Screaming Silence
No discussion of Annapolis can be complete without considering the roles of the minor players inside and outside the assembly hall. These are the folks commonly spoken of as the supporting cast. A better term this time might be unsupporting cast. One of the most important roles was reserved for the foreign ministers of Arab…
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Opinion ‘Killing the World’
Evidence of global warming over the past century is “unequivocal,” and the process is largely the result of human activity. If sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions aren’t begun within the next decade, the century ahead will see a dramatic rise in violent storms, heat waves, droughts and floods that will kill millions of people…
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Opinion The Bomb and the Taliban
Distant though it may seem from our day-to-day reality, Pakistan’s sudden descent into political chaos this month presents America and the West with a diplomatic and security challenge unlike any other on our crisis-ridden horizon. Simply put, the world’s second-largest Muslim nation — and the only one with nuclear weapons — is teetering on the…
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Opinion Defining a Nation
Every time Middle East peace negotiations loom, leaders on both sides begin to strut and posture, loudly proclaiming how little they intend to give away. It’s intended partly to placate the domestic opposition before the tough decisions arrive, and partly to soften up the other side. The latest example is Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat, a…
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Opinion And Now, Turkey
The crisis coming to a boil along Turkey’s border with Iraq, pitting Turkish troops against Iraqi-based Kurdish rebels, could hardly come at a worse time for America or the West. Turkey, population 70 million, straddling the Asian and European continents, is the most secularized of Muslim nations and the one most critical to the strategic…
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Opinion When Will They Learn?
The Democrats who won control of Congress last year, riding a national wave of disgust with the Bush presidency, are beginning to find themselves as helpless as the rest of the nation, and the world, in the face of President Bush’s implacable stubbornness. They have passed an increase in the S-CHIP children’s health program three…
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