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...most visible spokesman, thanks to his excellent command of English, his understanding of the Western mind and, on the hard scale of Hamas, his softer tone. Israelis dismissed his mild pragmatism as nothing but smart p.r. Yet it was Abu Shanab who often hinted at how Hamas might accept something less than its maximal demands. As he explained a few days before the June 29 hudna, or cease-fire, went into effect, the same kind of "religious truce" could be extended indefinitely if "Israel would let us build our own state" in the old 1967 boundaries. Then his generation would...
...Beware The Straight Backlash," Andrew Sullivan described himself as gay and politically conservative and decried the Bush Administration's hostility toward gay marriage [VIEWPOINT, Aug. 11]. Sullivan ought to know there are many Americans who accept gay marriage and who welcome gay associates, ideas and modes of behavior into their homes, lives and politics. These people are called liberals. Sullivan's problem is not that he's gay; it's that he has been hanging out with the wrong political crowd. He ought to quit spurning the hand of welcome and start working toward a liberal majority. It will...
...Khin Nyunt is considered pragmatic enough to accept that the country needs to grapple with its diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. It was he who helped negotiate Suu Kyi's release 15 months ago from her second stint under house arrest. She was detained again last May and is being held at an undisclosed location...
...were different from both, but his negligible political standing made him a marginal figure except in the wishful thinking of President Bush. Abbas adopted the ?roadmap? and then equivocated on implementing it; Sharon artfully avoided actually adopting the document as a whole: The relevant cabinet resolution agrees to ?accept the steps set out in the roadmap,? subject to the implementation of 14 Israeli reservations raised with the U.S. but not in the ?roadmap? itself...
...major reason for avoiding getting that specific was precisely that the present Israeli leadership has never given any indication that it accepts a withdrawal to the 1967 borders. Indeed, shortly after assuming office in 2001, Ariel Sharon made clear that his view of a Palestinian state is one comprising little more than 42 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. His own party?s current election platform certainly confirms a political vision no Palestinian or Arab leader would ever accept: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river,? the Likud...