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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | May 2, 1994 issue

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It was concerning Crete that Saki's Arlington Stringham made the remark that its inhabitants produced more history than they could consume locally. That was in the early, Edwardian phase of "the Eastern question." It was in Thessaloniki that St. Paul began his attempt to move Christianity front Asia Minor to Europe. It was in Thessaloniki that the most famous of the "false Messiahs," Shabbetai Zevi, tormented the Jews with visions of heaven before letting the side down and converting to Islam. One nationalism leads to another, and even though Greece is the only country bordering Skopje that does not have territorial designs on it, Greece is also the country with the most to lose from a recrudescence of the Macedonia question.

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INTERNATIONAL relations; NATIONALISM; PATRIOTISM; POLITICAL doctrines; MINORITIES; CHRISTIANITY
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