State
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Most
state
land, for example, is held in trust for the Jewish people.
Not a single new Arab village – much less a city – has been created since the establishment of the
state
of Israel 70 years ago, and old villages lack planning and zoning programs.
Moreover, a broad array of Israeli laws already explicitly and implicitly defines Israel as a Jewish
state
– a definition on which the international community agrees.
The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan defines Israel as the
state
of the Jewish people.
And the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has long been based on the principle that the Palestinians should exercise their right of national self-determination in a separate
state
on the other side of the pre-1967 borders.
Furthermore, in 2012, 60% of Arab Israelis reported that they accepted Israel as a Jewish-majority state, with official Jewish characteristics, such as Hebrew being the official language and Saturday being the accepted day of rest.
Given this, it is perhaps unsurprising that Israeli Arabs’ recognition of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish and democratic
state
fell from 53.6% in 2015 to 49.1% just two years later.
The decrease ranges from 40% in Lagos – Nigeria’s most cosmopolitan city – to 70% in Kano, a predominantly Muslim
state.
First, your own eyes and your reason would surely tell you before long that the communist idyll – the withering away of the
state
and the triumph over need – would never come.
It would be interesting to know how many of those at Beijing’s Central Party School – the party’s main educational institute – believe that the Chinese
state
is about to wither away, or ever will.
His proposals would lead, it is said, to the
state
murdering the elderly.
For roughly four years, he represented the best that the West and India could hope for in a Pakistani leader – someone with military authority, who seemed convinced that his own survival, and the interests of his state, demanded a clampdown on terrorism.
There is a very big “known unknown” hanging over this fragile
state
of affairs.
But the skills needed for leadership of a wartime governing council are very different from those needed to run a sovereign
state.
The sheer amount of weaponry strewn around the country will probably pose the greatest challenge to its prospects as a successful
state
with an effective government.
It took France nearly fifty years to openly confront its Vichy past and to recognize that the French
state
had been guilty of collaboration with the Nazis.
If the epigenetic
state
of its germ cells is altered during an organism’s development, this variation can be transmitted to its descendants.
Moreover, although Bush has given mainly national security reasons for his seeming change of heart, America’s federal system, helps the country get around even a roadblock as powerful as the president, as “localism” promotes eco-political initiatives at the
state
level and even within municipalities.
It is not just California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who has recognized the signs of the times and proclaimed bold Kyoto targets for his
state
that may become a pacemaker of All-American modernization again.
Indeed, the Washington debate surrounding how to “fix Iraq” is irrelevant, because something that does not exist any longer – namely, Iraq as a functioning
state
– cannot be fixed.
Thus, what only a few months ago had looked from Washington like a successful transition to some sort of representative government is obviously a travesty: just as under Saddam, power today grows out of the barrel of the gun – only now the
state
does not hold a monopoly on the means of violence.
Yet the root causes of that failure go deeper, to Iraq’s creation as an artificial entity in the 1920’s by British imperialist planners, who stitched together three disparate provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire into a
state
that never had a coherent identity.
But a coherent Iraqi
state
– whether unitary, federal, or confederal – will not grow out of a society in which one part of the population views Saddam, rightly, as a gruesome oppressor, while another part reveres him as a hero and martyr.
And above all, the ownership and governance of key assets and resources are almost all in
state
hands.
The agency charged with managing
state
property (Rosimushchestvo) is unable to act as an effective controlling shareholder.
Many close to Putin have acquired great fortunes through their connections to
state
companies.
One route to enrichment is to privately appropriate the financial flows of
state
companies.
Another is to leverage connections in order to secure no-bid contracts or to purchase
state
assets for a pittance.
Indeed, with the expansion of the large
state
corporations, many of them in the hands of cronies, competition has drastically diminished in many sectors.
The largest players are the
state
and business empires for which the media is not a significant profit center.
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