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...camera bulbs had barely stopped flashing, but Mahmoud Abbas was already on the spot. After exchanging a photo-op handshake with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last week, Abbas went into his first meeting with Sharon since Abbas' election as President of the Palestinian Authority. Sitting across a long oblong table in an airy conference room, Sharon reiterated to Abbas his demand that the Palestinians take immediate steps to disarm the militants of Hamas before Israel agrees to resume peace talks. "Wait, wait, give me a break," Abbas said, according...
...Vega's breakthrough role came in 2001's Lucía y el Sexo (Sex and Lucía), in which she plays a luminous, besotted lover. Thinking her boyfriend has died in an accident, she travels to his favorite island where she uncovers a secret about his past. Her performance - tender, impassioned and real - won her a Goya award (Spain's Academy Award) for best new actress. Her early career had its memorable nude scenes, but it was Vega's ability to inject her characters with a fiery sensuality that kept Spanish eyes on her. Moments like...
...former defense lawyer for ETA prisoners. But Batasuna refuses to criticize its armed brethren. The attack "responds to the perverse logic of this conflict and it shows that a solution is needed," says Pernando Barrena, a Batasuna spokesman. Alberto Surio, political commentator at San Sebastián's daily El Diario Vasco, says the attacks show that the terrorists "want to negotiate from a position of strength, to establish their own conditions." But bombs, alas, won't lead to negotiations; that would really be perverse logic...
Longtime observers of the Middle East could be forgiven for experiencing a moment of d?j? vu in the spectacle of Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas declaring an end to hostilities in an Arab Red Sea port on Tuesday. The Sharm el-Sheik summit repeated many of the themes echoed by the two men when they met 18 months ago at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, and the resulting truce, was, then as now, hailed as a new beginning. That deal collapsed within weeks, and many of the factors that contributed to its demise have not been fundamentally altered...
...Sharm el-Sheikh talks were really just talks-about-talks, discussions about preconditions for resuming dialogue. Still, even on the question of prisoner-releases, the fault lines are already clear: Israel has offered to help cement Abbas?s stature by releasing some 900 Palestinians imprisoned for lesser offenses, but it steadfastly refuses to free any prisoner ?with blood on his hands.? But it is precisely those prisoners the Palestinians want freed in exchange for a cease-fire, starting with the 237 whose acts of violence were committed before the 1993 Oslo Accords when the PLO ostensibly ended hostilities with Israel...