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through the Chaco River. Or, whose side will they take between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda? Do they really back Kabila? And, where do they really stand on the issue of Moluccan independence? How about Cyprus?Which brings us to their "plenum." The Webster Dictionary defines the word plenum as follows:
1. A condition in which the pressure of the air in an enclosed space is greater than that of the outside atmosphere.
2. A general assembly of all members of a legislative body.
We think the first definition is more apposite. One can simply imagine the effects of all that hot air in an enclosed space. Undeterred by the spectacle of their foolishness, Jewish leaders have lost sight of the very simple fact that the worst harm one can do to Jews is to support their enemies.
Ruth King is a member of the Executive Committee of Ameicans For a Safe Israel.
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absence of the extreme Right, he will have to have Labor at his elbow. If Barak is the victor, he will not be able to market a finished Oslo to the Labor-hating part of the public, unless the Likud is beside him--otherwise, he will find himself hounded like Rabin. As for Yitzhak Mordechai, candidate of the new Center party: if he wins, for the reasons just given he will need to bring both major parties in with his own.No matter who you vote for, you are voting for his rival too! There is going to be a national unity government. The question is: who will lead it? Since the policy will be the same in any case, it is doubtful whether the answer really matters.
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tiating autonomy for Sudeten Germans with Czechoslovakia, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop told the heads of the Sudeten Nazis (the Sudeten version of the PLO): "Always negotiate and do not let the thread break; but always demand more than the opposing side can offer."(Continued from p.6)
the few passes leading from the east into the country are controlled by a mountain range towering 800 meters above the Jordan Valley. In a joint announcement, 100 American generals and admirals described the region as "the only military margin" Israel possesses to safeguard its very existence. Only from there, say the experts, can an invading army be destroyed. Once up the mountain plateau, a hostile foreign army faces obstacles on the way to Tel Aviv. From the Jordanian viewpoint, a
Palestinian state sharing a common border with Jordan would
be tempted to infiltrate and destabilize Jordan with the
intention of annexing it to "Palestine." Thus, both
Israel and Jordan have a common interest in keeping
Israel on the mountain plateau of Samaria, in the Jordan
Valley, and on the Jordan River. Is it exaggerated to state
that the second insurance policy--the territory, is the
better one? After all, what country would make its very
existence dependent on the well being of another state?
Hussein's death is a classic illustration of how fragile and dangerous is the total reliance on the stability of Jordan (a stability that we hope will prevail under King Abdullah II). But Providence has given Israel another leg to stand on: 200,000 Jewish settlers, sitting on this very mountain plateau. If the Yesha settlers were not there, they should have been invented. Providence also wanted it so that the spearhead and backbone of this Jewish population came there in search of tradition, religion and history, in the footsteps of the Patriarchs. A spiritual magnet turned out to serve as a material security belt for the Jewish coastal state. The Israeli establishment's jitters in the wake of Hussein's death should serve as the handwriting on the wall--warning right and left not to touch Israel's only true insurance policy: the territory and the settlements of Judea and Samaria.
March 1999 - 11 - Outpost