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...town has long prided itself on being a symbol of Palestinian defiance in the face of Israel's military might. When Israeli troops entered the refugee camp in 2002 to close down the organizations there that had been sending suicide bombers into Israel, they faced fierce resistance; Israel gained control of the camp only after eight days of fighting, during which it lost 23 men and killed some 52 Palestinians, and bulldozed several dozen houses...
...remains to be seen whether Lieberman is willing to accept a truly independent Palestinian state - Netanyahu has indicated that he won't, insisting, in the name of the Jewish state's security, that Israel control the air space and borders of such an entity and have veto power over its military and foreign policies. Netanyahu's track record, however, is more pragmatic than ideological. Despite his open loathing of Yasser Arafat, Netanyahu and his previous government signed a deal in 1998 with the late PLO leader for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the West Bank, including...
...peace. But Netanyahu knows that no peace deal is possible without returning the Syrian territory captured in the war of 1967, and he may be ready to find a formula for its return if Syria is truly ready for a peace deal. Syrian President Assad, having established firm control of the often opaque regime he inherited from his late father Hafez al-Assad, appears to be willing to pick up where his father left off in seeking a deal with Israel. Assad was instrumental in starting indirect, Turkey-mediated talks with Israel despite initial opposition by the Bush Administration...
...allowed the Acehnese to rebuild their lives and communities after three decades of fighting and the devastation of their province in the 2004 tsunami. Some 170,000 people in the province were killed the disaster. "There is little danger in the short term of violence escalating out of control, let alone a return to armed conflict," Sidney Jones, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group (ICG), wrote in a recent report. "But the underlying causes of the tensions are not just election-related and need to be addressed if peace is to be preserved in the long term." (See pictures...
...administration will more likely be decided by his ability to pull Japan out of its economic tailspin. The public's lack of confidence in the government's handling of the economy has benefited the opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) - so much so that it could wrest control of government from Aso's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the first time in decades in the next general election. There has been speculation that Aso might call an election in May or June to take advantage of a political-contributions scandal surrounding DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa...