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TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees has spent almost a decade living and working at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here he recounts how the internal divisions within the two traumatized societies inspired his new book, "Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East...
...book, Cain?s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East (Simon and Schuster), I write that ?from Lawrence of Arabia to Bill Clinton, Westerners applied their apparently logical perceptions of the conflict to a potential resolution, colored by romantic notions of the noble desert Bedouin or an evangelical inspiration to succor the biblical Hebrews in their homeland. These solutions failed because they missed something - the terrible insecurity which afflicts both societies...
...Cain?s Field concentrates each chapter on one or two individuals with whom I've had personal contact, from an Arafat henchman to a bereaved Israeli settler and one of Tel Aviv's most popular rock stars. Their stories tell truths about the chaos at the hearts of these peoples. But my book also offers hope - that by turning the spotlight inward, these societies might heal their internal wounds, and move towards a peaceful future...
...expert at manipulating people; even the priest, who is often as pathetic as he is predatory--all express the film's thesis that love can be a form of abuse and, occasionally, vice versa. Weaving sad headlines about the pedophile clergy into a plot that suggests James M. Cain as filmed by Hitchcock, the film dexterously dances across four time periods and leaves the viewer to determine whether any one scene is reality, memory, fantasy or movies. One thing, however, is certain: nobody makes movies with the brio and gravity of Almodóvar's. Bad Education is a cooler film...
...Davao. In March, police arrested four Abu Sayyaf members in Manila who allegedly admitted they were preparing to blow up one of the city's busiest shopping malls using up to 36 kg of explosives toted in backpacks. (One of the men picked up was alleged SuperFerry bomber Redondo Cain Dellosa, who apparently spent several days before his arrest boasting to strangers in the capital about his role in the ferry attack in Manila...