Word: dovishness
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...America's leading authorities on Shiite religious and political culture, and his proficiency in Arabic allows him to follow much of the political debate occurring among Iraqi leaders through Arab media outlets. His daily updates are essential reading for anyone seeking serious analysis on Iraq. War in Context, a dovish Web log provides an essential service by posting a daily menu of essential reading from a politically diverse range of U.S. and international media on the conflict in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. Saves you having to spend hours browsing the major U.S., British and Middle East dailies...
...General Menachem Mazuz decided not to indict Sharon and his son Gilad, despite prosecutors' recommendation that the Prime Minister should stand trial for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate tycoon. That ruling opened the way for Sharon to expand his minority coalition to include, at least potentially, the dovish Labor Party. Sharon wants Labor onboard to help push his plan for a withdrawal from Gaza; Arafat believes Labor in the government would ease pressure from the U.S. and Egypt to reform...
...beginning to believe for the first time that President Bush may actually be vulnerable, they are increasingly worried that they have not yet seen the Democrat who can beat him. Many are intrigued by the excitement and money that Dean has generated but are concerned that Dean is too dovish, too insubstantial, too cranky to survive the first presidential contest of the post-9/11 era. As for the rest of the field, it looks like a blur to most voters. "Frankly, none of them have gotten people very excited," says Eli Broad, a billionaire Los Angeles philanthropist...
...raise the specter of an endless bout of bloodletting; it also potentially puts the very notion of a two-state solution to the conflict beyond reach. That would leave Israel in permanent control of millions of Palestinians with no democratic rights in the state that governs them - a situation dovish Israeli commentators warn would be akin to apartheid South Africa. Even Sharon himself warned his countrymen in May, "You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation. To hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation, I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians...
...speaking the language of peace, promising to make "painful concessions" after the Palestinians stop all violence - and, most recently, causing consternation even in his own party by uttering the taboo word "occupation" to describe Israel's rule over the 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Such dovish phrases are all the more confusing when Sharon intersperses them with promises to the settlers that they can start building houses for their great grandchildren...