Word: despairing
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When Francisco de Goya created his series, "The Black Paintings," he was expressing his despair over human nature and war in 19th century Europe. But his "Duel with Cudgels" might as well have been painted to capture the craziness of the situation in the Middle East today. It depicts two figures inflicting blows on each other while they sink in quicksand...
...keeping him entirely isolated. His captivity has made Arafat more inclined to embrace the martyrdom language of Hamas than to sign off on the Tenet cease-fire plan. And if the operation's motivation was to stop the suicide bombings that have terrorized Israelis to the point of despair, then the fact that there have been six such attacks in as many days suggest there's no likelihood of an early withdrawal...
...question. Mugabe and Tsvangirai are personally and politically worlds apart. At least 10 people, mostly MDC supporters, have already died in post-election violence and about 50 white farmers have been forced off their lands, their homes ransacked and looted. Among the opposition there is more despair than defiance. Where there might have been a fleeting hope of reconciliation, a climate of retribution now rules...
...Dershowitz would demand that the Palestinian Authority combat terror while Israel maintains a siege imprisoning three million Palestinians in their towns and villages. Though the siege has tripled Palestinian unemployment and reduced 60 percent of the Palestinian population to poverty, there is ostensibly no connection between this poverty and despair and the increased willingness of Palestinians to attack Israelis...
...Neither side today has much faith in the other's desire for peace, but neither side wants to be seen to be the spoiler of Zinni's mission. The despair on both sides may, in fact, provide the best hopes for Zinni's success. Still, after the vicious bloodletting of the past two weeks, it may take more than one Marine to keep the peace in the Middle East...