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Article: Remembering Israel. (problems with Palestinian Arabs) (column)
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- National Review
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- February 19, 1988
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REMEMBERING ISRAEL
IT HAPPENS to the American public time and again, that creeping lesion of interest. Africa was a case in point. For a few feverish years after the decolonization of Ghana, the day's news was full of what was going on in Nigeria, and in Kenya, and in Rhodesia, Guinea, Madagascar, Mozambique . . . And then suddenly--I'd put it at about 1966-69--Africa slowly slipped out of the news. There were several reasons for this. The first was that the bright post-colonial picture, about which so many high-flown speeches had been given, declined to materialize. There are a few candid people prepared after thirty years to say that Ghana was better off ...