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Ironically, the Haredim may actually save this country—by giving the rest of us a cause around which to unite
In September 1983, in response to a Soviet diplomat’s question about why the U.S. had to be the country in which the United Nations was situated, Charles M. Lichenstein, who was then serving as Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, responded that he would be more than happy to see the UN leave America’s shores: “The members of the U.S. mission… will be down at dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail into the sunset.”
I hadn’t thought of Lichenstein in a long time, until United Torah Party chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf said a few weeks ago that if Israel insisted on moving ahead…
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