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...Shuster answered the senator and incivil war to maintain their turf in what will soon become formed him that unfortunately Mr...
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...For the The Museum of Clear Ideas: Israelis and Palestinians are embarked on an arduous journey, a longSuzanne Keen 21 term peace process...
...The agreement reached under deep cover in Oslo between Israeli Foreign Minister STAFF Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas of the PLO and signed under the approving eye Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels of the president and two former presidents of the United States has the air of a done Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan deal...
...6 The age of restraint: J. Bryan Hehir 8 Buzz words or principles?: Liz Leibold McCloskey 10 What's a Catholic country to do?: Timothy A. Byrnes 11 Growing up or selling out?:Tim McCarthy 13 Slovakia embraces the past: Janice Broun 15 Living where the wall was: Stephen Brockmann 16 On the road Poetry: Michael Cadnum 18 Stage: Gerald Weales 19 he Israeli-Palestinian agreements for mutual recognition and a measure of Palestinian self-rule bring to mind the final lines of the ancient BOOKS prayer of Zechariah: "guide our feet into the way of peace...
...ernments as well as from a strapped United States...
...C.S.C., discloses that in the early years Shuster sometimes In the colder months the vagrants who sleep on the benchsigned Commonweal articles with assumed names to con- es along Broadway's median strip are usually concealed under sheets or blankets, so at dawn it sometimes looks as though, the shrouded figures of the dead have been lined up as in a CORRECTION Matthew Brady Civil War photograph...
...Scrutiny of the accords and speculation about motives and outcomes disclose Associate Editor: Paul Baumann not only the daring of the agreement, but the precariousness of the process the Israelis Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt and Palestinians have embraced...
...More than a series of discrete events that begins The Politics of Virtue/Life's Dominion: with a treaty signing and that ends with the relinquishment of contested territory, Daniel Callahan 23 the Israelis and Palestinians must face up to all of the resentments, justifications, The Politics of Virtue: Jean Bethke Elshtain 24 and claims created over decades of struggle in which thousands were killed and The Green Paradise/The Apprentice Writer: maimed and in which history was rewritten to suit political needs...
...Unquestionably, the nay-sayers in each camp can conjure dire scenarios: in one, Israel is ultimately and fa- FLEA-ING NEW YORK tally threatened by a full-fledged and fully armed Palestinian CITY OF INEXPLICABLE ERUCTATIONS state...
...in the other, Palestine remains a rump state unable to govern itself or to achieve economic viability...
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...tlements in the West Bank, can only have reminded the Israelis that the clock and the meter were ticking down on U.S...
...political capital on the outcome...
...I able for highlighting got tacked onto the end of the re- couldn't walk but a few blocks without being badgered by a view...
...But if not now, when...
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...At the same time, Hamas, the Islamic reliStaff: Harriette Balsky, Carmen Alava, gious group, has emerged to play an increasingly militant role as advocate and Pamela Quatse enforcer in the occupied territories...
...Given Arafat's waning influence, goes the arAdvertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Publisher: Edward S. Skillin gument, he had little choice but to strike a deal now with Israel...
...That's how hot it was...
...What is the wealthiest country in the 4: 24 September 1993 Commonweal...
...It has seen Dutch St...
...Naturally, I soon imagined A PEN NAME IS MIGHTIER THAN A PIS- myself infested, every twitch of hair on my legs a new beachTOL In his just-published biography of longtime Com- head upon which to battle the maurauding vermin...
...I looked tomonweal Managing Editor George N. Shuster (On the Side ward the window and all the pigeon droppings piled up on the of Truth, University of Notre Dame Press), Thomas E. Blant, ledge outside...
...No more than Arafat and "About two weeks later," the book reports, "a letter arthe PLO can the Israeli government guarantee that dissidents, rived from Senator Heflin at the Commonweal office addressed and the West Bank settlers in particular, will not work to sub- to Paul Crowley and challenging him to a duel over the revert the agreements, perhaps even turning to violence and a marks he had made...
...The Editors to me for two whole blocks, conducting his interrogation in a hoarse stage whisper...
...a new broom...
...In one tions in Washington, must have made it abundantly clear to of these, bylined "Paul Crowley," Shuster ridiculed a rethe Israelis that he was not investing his meager supply of cent stance of Senator Thomas Heflin of Alabama...
...And finally, he must wring aid from Arabs and other govand monthly July and August, by Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...And though Israel will always have an overwhelming military advantage should the agreement break down, NOTEBOOK there will be no return in the eyes of the world to the political status quo ante...
...Did they know about the flea, I We hope Dennis Doyle and Kenan Osborne will accept wondered...
...Crowley had just left the Palestinian-controlled territory and ultimately part of a United States for a tour of Pakistan...
...There is no time like the present to begin the long and ar- If he last week in August was unbearably hot and duous effort to finally build trust and establish confidence be- humid in New York...
...The senator wrote a couPalestinian state...
...Stage: Gerald Weales Yasir Arafat and the PLO, having lost their Soviet sponsors and their various Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Arab bankrolls, were becoming superfluous representatives of the desperate inAbigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Israeli political parties...
...Ergo, the agreement is only as solid as Arafat's ability to deliver on self-rule and economic Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of improvement in the territories...
...Crowley altogether...
...Where, I wondered, did he get what was obviously It was familiar because it contained his very own words...
...In Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but must be 1991, the Bush administration, using aid as leverage to force an end to new setaccompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...Those eloquent words were not my own derelict, scoffed at or taunted by some contemptuous drinkers DENNIS M. DOYLE on a stoop or in a doorway...
...Business Manager: Richard Haas The daring was celebrated in Washington on September 13' before a world still Design: Emil Antonucci slightly astonished at this turn in what had seemed an intractable and interminable Screen: Richard Alleva struggle...
...habitants of Gaza and the West Bank...
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...I'd wake up an hour or more before dawn, listen to the slow grinding noise of the fan, and be unable to fall back asleep...
...04106 (207) 7994387, classified advertising correspondence to 15 But, absent progress toward peace, are Israel's prospects any better...
...and psychological constraints that come with being on constant military alert...
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...CONTENTS COMMONWEAL Volume CXX, Number 16 Correspondence: 2 Editorials: 3 Notebook: Paul Baumann 4 NAFTA south of the border: William K. Meyers, Jr...
...at least it had a oddly similar political experiences could make at last an oasis predictable effect on me...
...The precariousness is still before us...
...ple of letters further, inquiring about Crowley's eventual reThis catalogue of pros and cons only emphasizes the larger turn, and Shuster eventually apologized that he had lost contact point: the peace process is a high-risk venture for both Israelis with Mr...
...Display advertising and American supporters of Israel, his chances of success on all these fronts do correspondence should be sent to Ruth E. Taylor, not look all that solid...
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...The doubters think all moments are inauspicious for putting their feet on the path of peace...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to its own future and prosperity diminished under the growing economic, political, Commonweal, 15 Dutch St...
...But on this August mornFreud describes the unheimlich (the uncanny) as experi- ing the dress code was more relaxed, and nearly every bench encing something as both strange and yet eerily familiar was occupied by some prostrate and sockless casualty...
...I got up and went out for coffee...
...and Palestinians...
...This seemed to have a pretween two peoples whose energies, respect for learning, and dictable effect on the citizenry...
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...I resorted to reading a book on the failed promise of Vatican II, but even this venerable narcoleptic didn't do the ET CETERA trick...
...What I had included as a quote from Osborne's text suit- The week was punctuated by such doleful incongruities...
...And President Bill Clinton, by Commonweal 24 September 1993: his studied distance from the ongoing Middle East negotia- ceal how much in the magazine was his own work...
...Father Kenan Osborne may have felt and Broadway, the man who usually proffers his paper cup unheimlich when he read the last paragraph of my review to those entering the CitiBank branch was compulsively of his Ministrv (PauIist Press) in the September 10, 1993, sweeping the sidewalk like a distraught burgher hurrying to issue...
...It is still a very David O'Connell 26 small stretch of territory which will be filled with anger and resentment for a long Fullness of Faith: Joseph A. Komonchak 27 time to come...
...He must control dissident elements within the PLO Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is and its splinter groups, which over the years have proved even more fractious than published biweekly except Christmas/New Year's...
...At 96th at the same time...
...One particularly brutal night I killed what I took to be a gnat, or worse a flea, as it limped across the rather thin tuft of hair on my chest...
...One short and very scruffy panhandler latched on our apologies...
...Sleep was difficult to of democracy and prosperity in the Middle East...
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