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...prime minister, he said: “The Jewish people have unchallengeable, eternal, historic right to the Land of Israel including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the inheritance of their forefathers.”Alas, perhaps it is the words of Karl Marx that describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict most accurately: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Yesterday it was the rise of the Likud, and today it is Hamas. The Palestinian people have never been more in need of moderate leadership than today and, yet, they chose extremists...
...elect their government while disapproving of the unsettling result: the election of a terrorist group that both supports the destruction of Israel and the use of violence to achieve this end—two positions that are in clear opposition to the goal of peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...politically incorrect, and also inaccurate, to use the loaded phrase "clash of civilizations" to describe big stuff like the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the burgeoning international conflict over a series of cartoons in a provincial Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad seems to fit the term with depressing accuracy. It's a case of the hard-fought right to free expression banging up against Muslims' conviction that states ought to punish anyone who insults the Prophet. And so far, all the protagonists appear ready to ride their principles to Armageddon...
...Marina Ottaway Specialist in democracy and post-conflict reconstruction issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...Woodruff and his crew had arrived in Baghdad just days earlier to prepare a special news program on the Iraqi conflict to be broadcast after President George Bush's State of the Union address. They were filming in an area outside of Baghdad where rebels have stepped up their attacks against U.S. and Iraq forces. On Jan. 16, rebels in Taji fired a surface-to-air missile shooting down an AH-64 Apache helicopter, killing both of its crewmen...