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May. 25th, 2003 01:55 amWilliam Gibson's short story "Hinterlands".
May. 25th, 2003
[ARTICLE] Israel in Europe
May. 25th, 2003 03:57 pmFrom Ha'aretz:
"Europa-bound"
By Thomas O'Dwyer
When faced with an incompetent, corrupt, mendacious, war-mongering government of timeservers and self-servers, it's hard to think of any policy it might come up with that might merit a nod of approval. But lo, on Tuesday up speaks Silvan Shalom - the foreign minister without the portfolio who lives in the Prime Minister's Office - and announces that Israel might apply to join the European Union.
It was neither big news nor even new news - in our newspaper it merited only an item in the unread wasteland beside page two ads - and was hedged in with possible maybes. "Shalom said he is not excluding that this government will ask for full membership in the EU," said Marco Pannella, an Italian member of the European Parliament.
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"Europa-bound"
By Thomas O'Dwyer
When faced with an incompetent, corrupt, mendacious, war-mongering government of timeservers and self-servers, it's hard to think of any policy it might come up with that might merit a nod of approval. But lo, on Tuesday up speaks Silvan Shalom - the foreign minister without the portfolio who lives in the Prime Minister's Office - and announces that Israel might apply to join the European Union.
It was neither big news nor even new news - in our newspaper it merited only an item in the unread wasteland beside page two ads - and was hedged in with possible maybes. "Shalom said he is not excluding that this government will ask for full membership in the EU," said Marco Pannella, an Italian member of the European Parliament.
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