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...Though Arafat once had solid ties with Iran, the Islamic regime turned its back on him in 1993 when he signed the Oslo peace accord with Israel, which Tehran regards as anathema. Iran focused its attentions instead on Hizballah, which for years fought Israeli soldiers occupying southern Lebanon. That battle lost its ferocity in May 2000, when Israel pulled out of Lebanon. The new Palestinian intifadeh, now 15 months old, offered Iran a fresh opportunity to export extremism. First, Iran's proxy Hizballah set up its own infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. Then, early last year, Iran organized...
...Bush Administration was never as unilateralist as its critics alleged. If it had been, it would not have spent so much time finding a new relationship with Russia. Moreover, some of the matters on which Bush and his team did not share the views of allies--like the Kyoto accord on global warming--are, to put it mildly, ones on which reasonable people may differ. But this much is true: though the Bush Administration was happy to say what treaties and other aspects of international cooperation it opposed, it rarely articulated what...
...loving you, Mona") around the time he was working with director George S. Kaufman on the Marx Brothers show "The Cocoanuts." Kaufman said he thought "'Always' was a long time for a romance" and suggested to Berlin "that the opening line might be a little more in accord with reality - something like "I'll be loving you Thursday.' But Irving would have none...
...Oslo Accord switched things around. Arafat became Israel's partner in peace and the Fatah leadership was brought home to run the Palestinian Authority; Hamas found itself alongside Islamic Jihad and Arafat's erstwhile leftist allies in rejecting the agreement. But by now Hamas was a large, well-established section of Palestinian political society, which Arafat could not simply wish away...
...lightings that will take place in each House this year. The menorahs will be in common rooms, they will be set up only for an hour or two each of the days that they are to be lit, and students will be coordinating the religious ritual of their own accord. No student will be forced to choose between eating and being in the same room as a religious object or ritual. The religious objects will be on display only as long as necessary to fulfill religious obligation. And the school itself is not involved in instituting religious practice...