The explanatory subtitle to "A Double Thread" (the title perhaps a nod to the tailors and seamstresses of Gross's predominantly working-class neighborhood, the East End), "Growing Up English and Jewish in London," is itself striking, if only because a similar declaration would be unthinkable for a New York Jewish writer.
But in this campaign, he moderated his position, saying a formal declaration would be unnecessary because Taiwan was effectively sovereign.
Critics say an emergency declaration would be illegal.
In that respect, a cease-fire declaration would be nearly worthless in defusing the current crisis, because the Turkish public views such announcements with equal skepticism.
However, a new constitutional declaration would be reminiscent of the 2013 declaration of Mr Morsi, which caused turmoil in the country.
As with disablement, a slight delay with the declaration would be tolerable, but worries persist.
During the drafting in 1947 of the Universal Declaration, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association warned of the danger that the Declaration would be "a statement of rights conceived only in terms of the values prevalent in Western Europe and America".
A key part of the declaration would be aimed at making it easier for U.S. scientists to obtain licenses for their work from the U.S. government, which must approve cooperation with Cuba, and to make it easier for people and scientific equipment to move between the two nations.
Still, American officials had been waiting to see if the Syrian declaration would be submitted within a week of the framework agreement, as the accord requires, and whether it would be comprehensive.
