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...policy does expect that parents contribute to the extent that they are able—not willing,” she said...
...Ariel Sharon is coming to the White House feeling lucky, because he believes that President Bush's domestic political concerns sets strict limits on the extent to which the U.S. is able to pressure Israel. The Bush administration recognizes that protecting its interests throughout the Middle East requires rapid progress towards settling the conflict by creating a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon has made abundantly clear that he's not interested in any near-term political settlement nor in any version of Palestinian statehood that would satisfy even the most moderate Arab and Palestinian leaders...
...with plans of their own. The Jerusalem Post reports growing enthusiasm for proposals by various non-partisan groups for getting out of the West Bank, withdrawing many of the Israeli settlements there and building a border fence to separate Israel from the Palestinians. That, of course, dovetails to some extent with what the Arab League has proposed. And also with the thinking of Israel's leading military theorist, the Hebrew University's Martin Van Creveld, who argued recently that "Whether because Mr Arafat does not want to end terrorism or because he cannot do so, another Oslo Agreement...
...some Israeli commentators have warned, such a differential in expectations was precisely the problem with Oslo - and is likely to be a recipe for further violence in the long term. The cool response may have discouraged the Bush administration from going public just yet. That, and the extent to which his "vision" is challenged by the events on the ground, which would only beg the question of what political capital the Bush administration may be willing to risk in order to realize its policy. A speech that was conceived, originally, as a vehicle to clarify the Bush administration's Mideast...
...lose. "Lincoln in the 1950s," he writes, "was about as safe and quiet a place as you could find on earth." Kerrey tells the usual tales of going to church, of trying out for the high school football team, of teenage fights and crushes. All of this, to an extent, is predictable. Yet these reminiscences of the Golden Years after World War II are given an unexpected poignancy, not because of how they end?we know they will end in Vietnam, America's ultimate repository of innocence lost?but because of how they began. For Kerrey's family...