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...come out as a peace activist, supporting the effort to rally against what is seen as a preemptive strike. And if you think that the only way Saddam Hussein will take U.S. threats seriously is through violence, then the smaller, yet no less rabid, pro-war faction on this campus will recruit...
...Many Arabs predict that hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops will in effect become another faction in the country's violent politics. Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al Hakim, head of the Supreme council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has already warned that U.S. liberators may soon become hated occupiers. Arab regimes worry that an occupation will be Osama bin Laden's dream come true: a rallying cry for Islamic extremism not just in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. While Arab governments are wary of a U.S. occupation and its colonialist overtones, they equally fear the consequences if the Bush administration...
...allowed a bad situation to grow worse. And it was misleading because a stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war with Iraq. It is a part of the argument that dare not speak its name, a fantasy quietly cherished by the neo-conservative faction in the Bush Administration and by many leaders of the American Jewish community...
...allowed a bad situation to grow worse. And it was misleading because a stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war with Iraq. It is a part of the argument that dare not speak its name, a fantasy quietly cherished by the neo-conservative faction in the Bush Administration and by many leaders of the American Jewish community...
MIDDLE EAST One Step Forward ... A host of Palestinian groups met in Cairo for talks on ending attacks against Israel. Yasser Arafat's secular Fatah faction endorsed a proposed truce, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected it. The need for a cease-fire was apparent in Gaza, where a Palestinian teen died in a gun battle after the Israeli army raided the town of Beit Hanoun. Troops also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said...