RUTH WISSE

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Anti-Jewish politics will end only when those who practice it accept the democratic values of religious pluralism and political choice—or are forced to pay a high enough price for flouting them.

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

The Arab League has made opposition to Israel the only common goal of its otherwise quarrelsome membership.

There’s an excellent historical reason why Jewish intellectual achievement sits along side political weakness…Jewish achievement in other areas has come at the expense of political strength….Centuries of survival in other peoples’ lands prevented Jews from achieving full acceptance—and access to the levers of government. Some individual Jews have lived large, but the Jewish people as a whole lived on sufferance afraid to antagonize those from whom they sought tolerance.

There’s an excellent historical reason why Jewish intellectual achievement sits along side political weakness…Jewish achievement in other areas has come at the expense of political strength….Centuries of survival in other peoples’ lands prevented Jews from achieving full acceptance—and access to the levers of government. Some individual Jews have lived large, but the Jewish people as a whole lived on sufferance afraid to antagonize those from whom they sought tolerance.

The Arab League has made opposition to Israel the only common goal of its otherwise quarrelsome membership.

Anti-Jewish politics will end only when those who practice it accept the democratic values of religious pluralism and political choice—or are forced to pay a high enough price for flouting them.

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.