Surely, this passing unpleasantness will be seen as only an eyeblink in the rich and collaborative history of these cousin peoples. They ran the news story about her visit to Israel back on Page C29, in the section headed New York Report, along with other news about the region. For the labyrinthine region that was the object of this tour was not the Middle East, but New York's voting precincts, where politics can be just as byzantine. Israel is just the first stop on the mandatory Three-I tour for senatorial candidates in New York. We'll know Hillary Clinton is really going to run for the Senate when she touches down in Ireland and Italy, too.
Ethnicity is the great, once-unmentionable undercurrent of American politics.
Something besides an abstract view of foreign policy was operating there. Just as something besides an abstract devotion to the constitutional doctrine of States' Rights was operating in the presidential election of 1948, when the States' Rights Party, aka Dixiecrats, carried only states where racial segregation was still in odorous flower. Back then, Arkansas still had a poll tax, which effectively disenfranchised its Negro citizens. The Dixiecrats' presidential candidate that year, Strom Thurmond, is still in the U.S. Senate, though he's gone through a political incarnation or two since, each attuned to the changes in South Carolina's politics. Lenora Fulami, who has a long record at picking 'em.