Word: abyss
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...Israel today, there is no hope. There is only despair, and intimations of the abyss...
Perhaps there is a way out of the abyss. Perhaps the hearts of the crowds that cheer the suicide bombers as they cheered the fall of the twin towers will be changed by a new leader, a fresh wind, a bold initiative. Perhaps...
Self-congratulation has rarely had a shorter half-life. Within hours, Bush's plans to go global with the war on terror were crowded out by new images of violence from the Middle East, where the endless fight between Israelis and Palestinians plunged once more into the abyss of total war. Televisions in the White House and around the world showed 40 tanks and 100 armored personnel carriers rumbling into the West Bank town of Ramallah; Israeli troops blindfolding Palestinian teenagers and machine-gunning Arab homes; an Arab mob executing a suspected Israeli collaborator, then hanging his body...
...Sharon tried to mollify both wings by acceding to neither; he instead announced the creation of "buffer zones" to separate the Palestinian territories from Israel. But he left the idea so vague that it failed to bolster belief that he has any plan for rescuing the country from the abyss. According to a poll released last Friday, only 54% of Israelis believe Sharon is credible, down from 77% seven months...
Giscard recognizes the challenge. In a 40-minute speech that modulated from French to English to German and back to French, he conjured up the difficulties of steering the Convention past "the yawning abyss of failure" and through "the narrow portal of success." Rather than a forum for diverging opinions, he called for the Convention "to become the melting pot in which, month by month, a common approach is worked out." Only if that "Convention spirit" is maintained will Giscard arrive at a "broad consensus on a single proposal" with enough force to prevail once the Convention is over...