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...special package scrutinizing the latest chapter in the Middle East conflict and various proposals for bringing peace to the region provoked impassioned responses. Many readers deplored the tactics being used by both sides and chastised the U.S. for failing to broker a deal that would curb the violence The moral equivalence assigned to Israel and Hizballah in Lisa Beyer's article "Hate Thy Neighbor" [July 24] was disgusting. Hizballah is a terrorist organization that targets innocent civilians with its rockets. Israel is a democratic nation-state with the right of self-defense. Comparing the two is akin to saying...
...anchors all began calling for his resignation. The country's top-ranked warrior admitted selling off the shares, but denied doing any wrong. One Knesset member said Halutz was guilty of insider trading, not to mention taking his eye off Hizballah in the critical, early stages of the conflict, when it still seemed possible that Israeli searchers might rescue the two captured soldiers...
...Uganda has hinted it will offer amnesty to Kony and other rebel leaders as a bargaining chip - just as it has allowed surrendering fighters to return home freely in the past. But cleaning up after the gruesome conflict will be difficult. The line between victim and attacker has been badly blurred: Most of the LRA fighting forces were once abductees themselves, children like Ojok Bosco, who were then forced to visit terror on their own families and villages...
...Loss of support from former Sudanese allies and a long Ugandan military campaign have also pushed most LRA fighters into the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. "They don't have the capacity to recruit," says Walter Ochora, Uganda's Resident District Commissioner in Gulu, the epicenter of the conflict. "They're surrendering on a daily basis." Child abductions and other attacks are way down from their peak in 2002. Farmers in Uganda's army-defended camps tentatively return to cultivate their land by day. And the north's main town of Gulu is once again bustling with commerce...
...Many expressed pure relief that the conflict appeared to be over. "All we want is peace," said Ali, a tennis coach from Chiyah who had been living with his family at the sports club where he works. His apartment building received only minor damage from a bomb that yesterday destroyed an entire block about 200 yards away. "Let the Israelis give us our country back and there will be no need for resistance." Others were merely stunned. "I used to live there, but I don't know where my building is any more," said Sulieman, a 20 year-old student...