Word: aviv
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...phrase "terrorist groups with global reach." By defining the threat as those groups with global reach, he would seem to eliminate, say, the West Bank bomber who straps some dynamite to his chest and blows himself up outside an Israeli disco. Such a madman can reach Tel Aviv but not Thailand or Toledo...
...back more than a half-century; as a defense ministry official, Peres introduced the firebrand young officer to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, in 1948. Now--sometimes comrades, sometimes rivals--the two are vying to see whose vision for peace will triumph. In his Tel Aviv office Friday morning, the 78-year-old Foreign Minister rubbed his lined face tiredly and hunched over a cup of strong, bitter black coffee that Israelis call botz, or mud. On the shelf behind his chair stood the parchment certifying his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. Peres still...
Terrorist groups acting openly under Arafat's protection proudly send young men into Israel to kill and maim. One suicide bomber murders 21 innocent youths at a Tel Aviv discotheque. Another chooses a Jerusalem pizzeria densely packed with young families, killing 15 and horribly maiming dozens of others with nails embedded in the bomb for precisely that purpose...
...other hand, there is not an iota of moral difference between sending a suicide bomber into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to kill indiscriminately large numbers of innocent civilians and sending V-1 and V-2 missiles to terrorize London and Antwerp during World War II. Would anyone argue that it would have been wrong for the Allies to "assassinate" those Nazis who were producing, targeting and launching...
...Palestinian demand for international observers was a strong signal of President Hosni Mubarak's impatience with Arafat. And it was German foreign minister Joschka Fischer who in June twisted Arafat's arm to declare a cease-fire or risk losing European diplomatic and financial support following the Tel Aviv disco bombing...