Word: exitement
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...that merits world attention and world action.” These are strong words from a man proposing to end the American military presence in Iraq by the end of next year.By vying for the votes of 60 percent of Americans who believe the United States should make its exit from Iraq as soon as possible, Obama is guilty of the worst sort of pandering. In speech after speech Obama has elevated his opposition to the war into a platform for election. “I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed...
...Mugabe," said Aubrey Matshiqi of the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies. At a Harare press conference on Tuesday, Tsvangirai declared: "After Saturday, March 29, Zimbabwe will never be the same again. The votes cast on Saturday were for change and a new beginning." Mugabe's exit, whenever it comes, would cue the rebirth of a nation...
...push himself over the 50% mark and win the election outright - though they say that is increasingly difficult given the amount of unofficial results indicating otherwise. The second theory is that the 84-year-old Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe for 28 years, is trying to negotiate an exit. That is the more likely scenario, says David Coltart, a newly reelected member of parliament from Bulawayo. Speaking to TIME by phone, Coltart said, "It is increasingly clear that Mugabe has lost the support of the rank and file of the army and the police." The armed forces have become Mugabe...
...Erez Crossing looks like the empty set of a sci-fi film, an alien spaceship that crashed into a field of rubble. This gleaming metal structure is the sole entry and exit point for human traffic between Israel and Gaza, a territory of 1.5 million Palestinians held by Hamas Islamic militants. Erez was built in more optimistic times, when it was envisioned that every day 30,000 Palestinian laborers, merchants and students would be flowing in and out of Israel...
...Palestinians, Erez is a chokepoint where only a lucky few can exit from Gaza, usually for medical emergencies. Bassam al-Wahedi, 26, a tall, soft-spoken journalist, was one of them. He had gone blind in one eye because of a retinal illness, and surgery at a Jerusalem hospital was his only hope of regaining sight in that eye. Since Gaza is denied all but basic humanitarian needs under an international boycott of Hamas, many complicated surgeries are no longer done there...