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...clashes on Oct. 25 came after Islamist groups called for Palestinians to "defend" the site after Israel had allowed Israelis to enter it the previous day. The confrontation may have had less to do with keeping Jews from praying at al-Aqsa, however, than with the erosion in Palestinian faith in President Mahmoud Abbas' path of negotiating peace with the Israelis and Americans. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal set the tone that day by declaring, "Jerusalem's fate will be decided with jihad and resistance, and not negotiations." The symbolic power of the Jerusalem issue has a radicalizing effect not only...
...that Karadzic's trial will play out similarly to that of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who used repeated stall tactics to drag out his proceedings for three years before eventually dying in custody. Many of the problems stemmed from the decision by the tribunal to allow Milosevic to defend himself - he used the court as a soapbox, delivering rambling political speeches. Karadzic, who is also representing himself, is now doing his best to sabotage his own trial and undermine the legitimacy of the tribunal. (See pictures from 2006 of the last Albanian community in Serbia...
...Bosnia and Herzegovina down the same highway to hell and suffering that Slovenia and Croatia are traveling. Do not think that you will not lead Bosnia and Herzegovina into hell, and do not think that you will not perhaps lead the Muslim people into annihilation because the Muslims cannot defend themselves if there is war. How will you prevent everyone from being killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina?" - Speaking before the Bosnian Parliament in October 1991 during a debate over whether to declare the Serb Republic sovereign. (The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Yale University Press...
...farmers - a one-two punch, he says, that makes profitable farming in Vidarbha practically impossible. "The input prices are set by someone else while the purchase prices are set by someone else," Tiwari says. "That's why the farmers are killing themselves." He wants the Indian government to better defend its own farmers by providing heavier subsidies for cotton production, protection from imports, easier access to finance and price supports. "If the government forces the farmers to have better productivity, it should have an integrated approach that is devised to have more profitability," he says...
...trouble getting used to them as a team,” Durwood said. “They kept attacking our middle back, and that was hard for us to defend with our system...I definitely think we will adjust our defensive systems before we play them next time...