Written Yestertay But Up-to-Date

Does this sound as if it is contemporary?

But the style of one prime minister or another is utterly irrelevant to the central facts with which Israel, and indeed the Jewish people ,are being confronted by the Western nations.  The Europe an attitudes codified in the Venice Declaration of June 1980, and the evolving policy of the US, as  it emerges unblushingly in Washington’s words and deeds, are all definable as a substantive accommodation to the Arab purpose.

That purpose is being articulated most clearly by SaudiArabia...

Shmuel Katz, December 25, 1981

1981?!!

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