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...Jerusalem, it is the Jewish custom to fold written prayers inside the cracks of the Western Wall. Last night, after exit polls in the Israeli elections gave his centrist Kadima Party a slim lead over its rivals, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wedged his prayer between the stones. Translated from Hebrew, it said: "He who prays for my brother and friend I will speak peace...
...truth is that no matter who wins, Israelis know their next prime minister will probably dispense some bitter medicine: a pullout of some Jewish settlements inside the Palestinian territories in exchange for permanent borders. Political analysts say Olmert - who inherited both the self-described centrist Kadima party and its main platform of "disengagement" from Ariel Sharon, still in a coma after a massive stroke last January - has tapped into a new pragmatism among Israeli voters. Co-existing with the Palestinians, especially with a government next door now run by Hamas, now seems an impossibility to most of them. A vote...
...Knesset - which often makes for strange alliances, especially amongst the more hawkish, conservative Likud party, more dovish and liberal Labor party and a whole slew of other smaller factions. Judging from the polls, this will hold true in next Tuesday's elections, in which the front-running, self-described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well be Avigdor Lieberman, a gravel-voiced settler, originally from Moldovia, whose views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are described...
...likely undermine the President's drive to integrate Ukraine more closely with the West, toward an eventual aim of membership in the European Union. Instead, Ukraine would once more align itself with Moscow. "This is a very special election," says Volodymyr Lytvyn, the Rada speaker and leader of the centrist People's Bloc. "At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past." The orange government came to power promising fundamental change that would make such a return impossible. And to an extent it has delivered: for business, less red tape...
...does not excuse the curtailment of a right of speech. While there is some truth to student sentiment that HRL’s campaign tends toward a sensationalizing of the abortion debate—and HRL would perhaps serve its purpose better if it did not alienate more centrist students in the way this campaign is likely to—these posters are hardly beyond the pale for a University that prides itself on the open exchange of diverse ideas. Students should have enough backbone to tolerate alternate viewpoints without allowing infantile instincts to govern their behavior. Those who claim...