With the collapse of Lebanese democracy as a result of the bloody civil war in that country, Israel became the only democratic state in the Mideast, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Daniel P. Moynihan, said Wednesday night. Addressing a gathering of the New York League for Histadrut, Moynihan, who is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, observed that “Israel became a metaphor for democracy in our world.” He described the recent hijacking of the French airliner to Uganda as “an attack of totalitarianism on democracy.”
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