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Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online. Hubert Burda
Today Music News Made Free Everything Costly Online Read Print Content Gotten Expensive Anyone Whether Less
My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations. Ian Lustick
Relations Academic Specialization
Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating. Ian Lustick
Try Build Sense Live Negotiating East Arabs Stay Case Most Operate Force Accept Israel Israelis Were Wall Going Just Middle Want Anymore Middle East Them Then Convince Convincing Use Used Even Here
If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that. Ian Lustick
You Too Much Will Pressure Responsibility Assume Too States Collapse Disappear Put Israel West West Bank Authority Bank Want Much Really United United States Palestinian Palestinians
I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop. Ian Lustick
Terrorism You Think Assume Tell Some About Terms Always Going Which Pop Popcorn
Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems. Ian Lustick
Problems Old Politicians Horrible Make Trusting Lousy Done Getting Whether Plain Them Really Agree
What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region. Ian Lustick
Peace Whatever State Virtually Kind Outcome Only Area Throughout River Jordan Between Israel Stability Going Wants Which Region Really Sea Now Basis
The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East. Ian Lustick
Democracy Equality World Will Long Jews States Ways East Run Easy Something Only Fact Long Run Safe Committed Middle Middle East Anywhere Including United United States
Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that. Ian Lustick
You Most Safe How Israel Israelis Question Want Keep
When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't. Ian Lustick
Today Best Good Racism People Unfair Nationalism Group Others Say States Arab Out Good Thing Idea Like Also Israel Decide Mean Preferences Used Many Thing Fundamentally
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally. Ian Lustick
Ability Risk Rationally Happen
Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic. Ian Lustick
Magic Democratic Blood Require
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. Immanuel Velikovsky
Buy Enthusiasm Poverty Lost Research Difficult Mine Pen Pencils Given Could Almost Devotion Provoked Short Used Describe Lived Nickel Fountain Fountain Pen Two
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. Immanuel Velikovsky
Garden Memory Mother Father Group Believe Carried Slowly Seems Small Toward Arm House Am Walking Orchard Them Grown-Ups Among Earliest
It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. Iris Chang
History Difficult Relic Onto Very Hang
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. Iris Chang
Great Acceptance Political Ugly Threat Only Economic Could Were Conditions Often Really Turns Right Pose
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. Iris Chang
Family Women Country Way Favor Adopt More Only Put Also Off Child-Bearing Going China Them Epidemic Who Professional Lives
Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. Iris Chang
Time Class Country Young States Distinctions Evolved Also Well Course Were Very Quickly Which United United States
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? Iris Chang
Class Country Ruling Ruling Class Cities Boston Most Discussion America Much Even
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest. Iris Chang
Country Out Clear Tension California Because Greatest Where Wanted Interest Chinese Racial Really Special Special Interest Special Interest Groups Groups Shut
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. Iris Chang
First Few Francisco Only Small Colony Had Welcomed Came Were Very Mayor San San Francisco Chinese Ceremonies Special Actually
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. Iris Chang
You See Economic Economic Forces Driven Forces Often Media
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. Iris Chang
Government Pure Country Nation Control Way Enterprises Spirit Seems Because Still Government Control Much Capitalistic Engaged Communist Whole
I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities. Iris Chang
Book Book Tour Cities Finish Tour Almost
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. Iris Chang
Book Writing Journalist First Style Neither Hopkins Write Writing Style Emphasized Journalistic Because Nor Historical After Afterwards Interesting Asked Working Program
I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. Iris Chang
Research Gathering Historical Skills Certainly Many
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