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Upstairs co-owners Mary-Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes had their eye on the Winthrop Square location since it came up for sale last spring, according to Shannah Hall, the real estate broker who oversaw the deal...
...Palestine. If it helps Colin Powell coax the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations, the dramatic gesture would be valuable. But it may not have any lasting effect on two sides so hate-soaked and at odds. When Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia offered in February to broker Israel's peace with the Arabs in exchange for a Palestinian state, the plan was applauded as a step forward--although land-for-peace has been the bedrock premise for ending the conflict since 1967. Now even that basic idea is at risk, since both sides have trampled their interim agreements...
Does negotiating peace while suicide bombings continue mean you are, as some pundits and Israeli hawks have argued, rewarding terrorism? The argument doesn't hold water, but as the Bush administration attempts to re-engage with the Palestinian leadership of Yasser Arafat to broker a cease-fire it's worth examining why peace negotiations should be separated from a war on terror...
...worth remembering that those dispatching the suicide bombers see no reward in renewed political negotiations. If anything, their actions reveal they're threatened by dialogue. It's no coincidence that every visit by General Zinni to broker a truce has brought a sharp uptick in terror attacks. The militants believe they can win by violence, and they have no interest in negotiations over a two-state solution. That's why the late Yitzhak Rabin had the foresight to recognize that stopping the peace process in response to terror attacks gave extremists veto power over the destiny of both peoples...
Administration officials say they're not giving up: Zinni remains in the region, still trying to broker a cease-fire. Beyond that, the prevailing U.S. impulse is to wait out the fighting, on the assumption that the two sides should bloody each other into a kind of mutual submission before the U.S. intervenes again. But over the past 18 months, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have shown much willingness to give in, which has left the U.S. watching helplessly as the conflict has exploded beyond control. "What else can we do?" asks one frustrated White House aide. "What other...