Word: bitterness
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...hoped this rich intellectual mix would stimulate some spirited debate, and we were not disappointed. Washington is in the throes of a bitter political and philosophical battle over the budget, and our participants could not help but carry some of the heat from that conflict into the Time symposium. Their discussion, which is reflected in our story in this week's issue, offered a telling preview of the issues likely to emerge when the 1996 election season kicks off next month...
...leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, whose bitter opposition to peace with Israel has fueled dozens of suicide bombings against Israelis, said he still opposes the accord on Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank. But in an interview from the Israeli prison where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...
...years ago, it seemed as if the bitter history of bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs would continue indefinitely. But today, though some disagreements are still unresolved, a partial settlement has been reached. Peace now seems to be more than a futile dream. Arafat deserves praise for the peace agreement he helped to broker. He also deserves credit for cracking down on Hamas and trying to end the carnage in Israel...
Yasser Arafat today is the head of a world-recognized Palestinian nation. He is the man who in September of 1993 signed an agreement to end the bitter warfare which had been continuing since the Palestinian uprisings began in 1987. He is the leader of the Palestinian people who was invited to the White House in May of 1994 and there signed an agreement heralding the initial withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories. He is a prominent figure in the Arab world who expresses a strong desire to work out future problems with Israel by peaceful means...
...inescapable part of being human is the inability to make such black and white decisions. It means coming to the realization that Arafat today is a necessary agent in the long awaited establishment of peace in the Middle East, yet acknowledging that he has left us with a bitter aftertaste. We must respond to the Arafat of today, while reflecting on the Arafat of yesterday. To dwell on the latter in spite of the former undermines the very peace effort we are working so hard to preserve. However, to forget the Arafat of yesterday for the sake of the Arafat...