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...TIME reported on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plans to complete a wall separating Israel from the Palestinians [April 17]. Olmert should consider the history of Ireland's dispute with Britain and the creation and segregation of Northern Ireland, the fence dividing the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus, and the partition of India into two states. Did any of those solutions result in cessation of conflict? No, partition does not work. Conflict resolution should be the name of the game, not an ongoing cold or hot war. Of family discussions at his home, Olmert says he is proud...
...time reported on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plans to complete a wall separating Israel from the Palestinians [April 17]. Olmert should consider the history of Ireland's dispute with Britain and the creation and segregation of Northern Ireland; the fence dividing the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus; and the partition of India into two states. Did any of those solutions result in cessation of conflict? No, partition does not work. Conflict resolution should be the name of the game, not an ongoing cold or hot war. Of family discussions at his home, Olmert says he is proud...
...range of reforms, some of which are deeply unpopular in Turkey - and not just with nationalists. These include loosening restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language, and on Kurdish media, even as a new Kurdish insurgency is gaining momentum in the southeast. Demands that Turkey recognize Greek-controlled Cyprus and changes aimed at bringing Turkey's penal code in line with Europe's are also controversial, seen by many as undermining the integrity of the Turkish state. In a recent poll, 51% of Turks said that they now saw the E.U.-inspired reforms as a repeat of the widely...
...safety experts are worried, however, about apparently subpar investigations into the crashes. American aviation sources say investigators in Cyprus--home to Helios Airways, whose Boeing 737 crashed near Athens--are sharing almost no reliable information with the public. And Venezuela's anti-U.S. stance is keeping investigators for the plane manufacturer from looking into why the West Caribbean McDonnell Douglas MD-82 went down en route from Panama to Martinique. Cuban officials have been asked to join the probe instead, but aviation experts say full information sharing is necessary to ensure global air safety...
...crackdown on Palestinian forces in Lebanon and tensions between Iraq and the Damascus government of President Hafez Assad. Three months after the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Israel, Abu Nidal hitmen murdered an Egyptian newspaper editor and hijacked a jetliner at Larnaca in Cyprus. In 1981, as Iraq courted the U.S. and Western Europe, the seat of Abu Nidal's terrorist operations began to shift to the Syrian capital of Damascus...