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> From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr>
> To: English edition dispatch <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr>
> Subject: May 1998
> Date: Montag, 11. Mai 1998 17:47
>
> LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Le Monde diplomatique
>
> english edition
>
> May 1998
>
> edited by Wendy Kristianasen
>
>
>
> ISRAEL AT FIFTY
>
> Palestine has not disappeared
>
> by Edward W. Said
>
> "There is no getting away from the fact that, as an idea, a memory,
> and as an often buried or invisible reality, Palestine and its
> people have simply not disappeared. No matter the sustained and
> unbroken hostility of the Israeli establishment to anything that
> Palestine represents, the sheer fact of our existence has foiled,
> where it has not defeated, the Israeli effort to be rid of us
> completely."
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/01said.html
>
> Original text in English
>
>
>
> Why Israel needs a Palestinian state *
>
> by Shimon Peres
>
> Theodore Herzl's vision led to an independent state that surpassed
> anything he could have dreamed of; but he failed to take into
> account the existence of another people. It is time to put right
> that mistake. Oslo was the first step to an historic
> reconciliation. But we should not forget that is in Israel's own
> interests to forge an enduring peace based on two separate states,
> in which both Palestinians and Israelis may prosper.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/02peres.html
>
> translated by Wendy Kristianasen
>
>
>
> Zionism's secular revolution
>
> by Zeev Sternhell
>
> The Zionism of Israel's founding fathers, the Labour dynasty in
> power until 1977, was born of the European nationalism of the turn
> of the century. And the drive to possess Arab lands stemmed from
> the very nature of that nationalism. With the victories of the June
> 1967 war, a consensus emerged in Labour circles: Israel had a right
> to the lands it had acquired in 1948-49 out of existential
> necessity, but not to the lands conquered in 1967. Now, with the
> passing of time, society, and with it Zionism, are taking a new
> direction.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/03zion.html
>
> translated by Wendy Kristianasen
>
>
>
> A BELATED ENCYCLICAL ON THE HOLOCAUST
>
> The Vatican's slow repentance
>
> by Henri Madelin
>
> On 16 March the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the
> Jews published a statement of capital importance entitled "We
> remember : a reflection on the Shoah." It was preceded by a short
> introduction written by John Paul II in person. The document said
> little about the responsibility of the Catholic hierarchy or the
> "silence" of Pope Pius XII. But it reiterated the Church's "common
> patrimony with the Jews" and "deplored" anti-Semitism, making clear
> the new direction of its relations with the Jewish world.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/04vatican.html
>
> translated by Barry Smerin
>
>
>
> BREEDING GROUND FOR THE FAR RIGHT
>
> Back to politics *
>
> by Serge Halimi
>
> In France, the far right has an advantage over the other parties:
> it knows just how to exploit people's fears and misery. The larger
> parties seem resigned to wait while the situation worsens, in the
> hopes of forming a broad coalition against the extreme right. This
> would be doomed to failure. But the way forward should be clear:
> no-one had any time for Jean-Marie Le Pen during the movement of
> protest which swept France at the end of 1995.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/05fnsh.html
>
> translated by Francisca Garvie
>
>
>
> Women are saying no
>
> by Janine Mossuz-Lavau
>
> Despite variations over time and among different social groups and
> ages, the number of French women who vote for the Front national is
> less than that of men. This is also true in other European
> countries. It seems that women are opting for independence and are
> distancing themselves from the patriarchal doctrines that make up
> the ideology of the far right.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/06lavau.html
>
> translated by Francisca Garvie
>
> Alsace, exception to the rule
>
> by Alain Bihr
>
> There has been much debate about the reasons for the growth of the
> Front national in Alsace since the region has none of the classic
> conditions which pull in the far-right vote. It is prosperous, with
> low unemployment, and seems to have a vibrant cultural identity.
> But appearances are deceptive. Alsace suffers from a lack of
> identity; and what it needs is "more state", in the sense of a
> greater sense of connection with France.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/07bihr.html
>
> translated by Ed Emery
>
> Holocaust denial is part of a strategy *
>
> by Valérie Igounet
>
> Insidiously, deliberately, as part of a carefully-considered
> strategy, Jean-Marie Le Pen has sought to make holocaust denial
> respectable. Those of the Front national who denied the holocaust
> were referred to as "historians", the gas chambers were "a point of
> detail". Ten years ago the "point of detail" remark provoked public
> criticism from within the party. But today, the groundwork has been
> done and the FN has come out of the closet.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/08igou.html
>
> translated by Barry Smerin
>
> Italy's post-fascists bid for respectability
>
> by Paolo Raffone
>
> Heir to Mussolini's fascists, but now considered part of Italy's
> anti-fascist "constitutional arc", Gianfranco Fini has succeeded in
> turning his National Alliance into an avowedly post-fascist party,
> which has won a legitimate and increasingly successful place among
> today's political parties. Much of this new-found legitimacy comes
> from a new liberal orientation and a refusal to ally itself with
> the more extreme neo-fascist right.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/09raff.html
>
> translated by Ed Emery
>
>
>
> A TENSE PEACE
>
> Ukraine, a society in deadlock
>
> by Edourd Pflimlin
>
> Ukraine seems to be finding a middle way between East and West,
> making for greater independence. But its external successes must be
> set against severe internal problems. The deaths of 63 miners in an
> explosion in a mine in Skachinskoho on 4 April revealed a plant in
> disrepair and a society in decay. This had its effect on the
> results of the legislative elections at the end of March, where the
> communists and their left-wing allies opposed to President Leonid
> Kuchma's liberal reforms won 173 of the 450 seats.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/10ukra.html
>
> translated by Malcolm Greenwood
>
>
>
> POST-APARTHEID EMPOWERMENT
>
> A Black boss for South Africa's gold
>
> by Thierry Secrétan
>
> With the end of apartheid, Black empowerment has become an
> essential feature of the new South Africa. Even so, it may have
> surprised some when a Zulu ex-guerrilla warfare expert and former
> inmate of Robben Island with a taste for business became boss of
> the celebrated gold-mining company, JCI. But then, suddenly, the
> price of gold plummeted.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/05/11safr.html
>
> translated by Malcolm Greenwood
>
>
>
> THERE IS ANOTHER, BETTER WORLD *
>
> A hundred and fifty years ago Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
> published the Communist Manifesto and France had its 1948
> revolution. Much more recently, thirty years ago, Europe had its
> revolutionary spring. Now again, people are beginning to say that
> enough is enough. The whole fabric of civilised social living that
> was created in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries is coming
> under attack and a collective reaction is urgently required.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/12intro.html
>
> translated by Ed Emery
>
> The hazards of internationalism *
>
> by Alain Gresh
>
> Billions of men and women, rendered powerless by the fragmentation
> of the social struggle, are pinning their hopes on a new
> universalism that does not leave the delicate fabric of the world
> entirely in the hands of the money men.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/13gresh.html
>
> translated by Barbara Wilson
>
> In the footsteps of Saint Karl *
>
> by Maurice Lemoine
>
> Whether through democratic pressure, Indian and peasant uprisings
> or revolutionary movements, Latin America has never given up trying
> to impose a human and political face onto economic development.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/15lemoine.html
>
> translated by Ed Emery
>
> Return of the rebels *
>
> by Christian de Brie
>
> The working classes have not given up the fight despite both overt
> and covert repression, a weakened and divided trade union movement
> and media indifference or outright hostility.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/16debrie.html
>
> translated by Sally Blaxland
>
> A need for utopia *
>
> by Ignacio Ramonet
>
> There is a need for dreamers who can think and thinkers who can
> dream. The answer will not be a neatly-packaged, custom-built
> project. It will be a new way of looking at things.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/17ramonet.html
>
> translated by Barry Smerin
>
> A handicap removed *
>
> by Dominique Vidal
>
> Far from presaging the end of history and the irrelevance of
> radical thought, the fall of the Soviet empire could give a new
> lease of life to ideas of utopia.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/05/18vidal.html
>
> translated by Sally Blaxland
>
>
>
>
>
>
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