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...order to pursue terrorism effectively, the U.S. must have a strong working relationship with nations hostile to Israel. The only way to bridge this divide is for the U.S. to apply itself actively as an honest broker for peace...
...Jews in Germany - a country that has maintained close ties with Israel since its founding - have also pushed their government to intervene more forcefully in the conflict, with results: since his Middle East visit last month, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has taken the lead in trying to broker peace talks between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. And although Europe's leaders are often more sympathetic to criticisms of Israel than their American counterparts - last week European representatives remained at the U.N. conference on racism after U.S. and Israeli delegates walked out - Jewish activists say they...
...Pakistan's ambiguity is based on the fact that its roles as U.S. ally and as Afghanistan power-broker are increasingly at odds. Pakistan had been a key U.S. regional ally in the Cold War, particularly during the Reagan administration's proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Its territory provided the staging ground and its intelligence service the conduit for billions of dollars of U.S. covert aid funneled to Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, including Osama Bin Laden, who were waging 'jihad' against the Soviet invaders...
...Gartenberg, 35, a commercial real estate broker with an office on the 86th floor of 1 World Trade Center, kept calling his wife Jill to let her know he was O.K. but trapped. "He let us know he was stuck," says Jill, who is pregnant with their second child. "He called several times until 10. Then nothing. He sounded calm, except for when he told me how much he loved me. He said, 'I don't know if I'll make it.' He sounded like he knew it would be one of the last times he would say he loved...
...chief Richard Grasso vows to anyone who asks that when the doors swing wide Monday and the opening bell rings at 9:30 a.m., the granite heart of American capitalism will pump money and investments just like it has always done. That when Mr. and Mrs. Public phone their broker or log onto their eTrade account to look to their retirement, the call - and the trade - will go through...