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Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...shuttled between housing and welfare appointments, he started to buckle under the scrutiny--he added up all the people he had to report to, including his family, and he ran out of fingers. When he missed a drug-treatment meeting to go to a job interview, he had to defend himself to an irate caseworker. "It's like they got a rope around your neck, a rope around your feet, and they just tug on you because they can," he said...
...Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...Harvard has a weakness, it has been its ability to defend against the three-point shot. The Crimson is allowing opponents to score from behind the arc at a league-worst 36.1 percentage, a number that has been inflated a bit by the team’s reliance on the zone this year. Harvard nearly allowed Dartmouth to get back into the second half of Saturday’s game when the Big Green’s Keri Downs lit up the Crimson for 15 points from outside...
...United States; it also undermined his position at home. While Arafat unconvincingly condemned the smuggling incident and vowed to punish those responsible, the ship's captain may have been expressing the view of a majority of ordinary Palestinians when he said simply, "It is my people's right to defend themselves." But Arafat is caught in a bind, because even if he has his own doubts about the rewards of diplomacy, the response of the Americans and Europeans to the Karine A incident is an unambiguous reminder that the international peace brokers will not allow him to maintain armed struggle...