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Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context
Commentary, October, 10 2000
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As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...
Shalom: The Crash of the Osprey
Commentary, July, 03 2000
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On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force Magazine, "one of the worst accidents in the history of Marine Corps aviation and one of the deadliest mili...
Shalom: The Diallo Case
Commentary, March, 04 2000
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During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of...
Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings
Commentary, February, 11 2000
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In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...
Shalom: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, January, 18 2000
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The issue of humanitarian intervention arises again, propelled by the crises in Kosovo and East Timor and by the memories of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Some analysts have used these cases to support new principles of international relations. But to...
Shalom: Political Correctness and the Desert Storm Law
Commentary, October, 13 1999
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Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.
Shalom: The State of the World
Commentary, September, 14 1999
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This summer, the United Nations Development Programme issued its annual Human Development Report. The document is a stinging indictment of globalization and its horrific impact on the well-being of so many of the world's people.
Shalom: Another Attack on Affirmative Action
Commentary, August, 14 1999
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In the present dreary political climate, another court decision against affirmative action might not warrant special comment. But a ruling last month by a Federal District judge in Savannah, Georgia, is worth considering if only because it illustr...
Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala
Commentary, June, 21 1999
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...
Shalom: The Milosevic Indictment
Commentary, May, 29 1999
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders. There is no doubt that the defendants were responsible for appalling atrocities, but, as the Indian judge on the tribunal wrote in his ...
Shalom: The Struggle Against Racial Profiling
Commentary, May, 23 1999
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For years, African American motorists have complained of being stopped by the police for the offense of DWB -- "Driving While Black."
Shalom: Thinking About Affirmative Action
Commentary, April, 11 1999
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There is a group of people in the United States who are given special preferences because of difficulties they suffered in the past.
Shalom: Terrorists and Madmen
Commentary, March, 27 1999
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The official U.S. explanation for the missile strikes on the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant last summer was so transparently bogus that even the NEW YORK TIMES -- after its initial approving editorial -- was forced a few days later to run a skeptic...
Shalom: You've Come A Long Way, Brother
Commentary, March, 06 1999
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The year 1926 was in the thick of the Jim Crow era. In the American South, racial segregation was the law of the land. Schools, jobs, public accommodations, movie theaters, water fountains and most everything else were segregated.
