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...Sharon's position on settlements, for example, could potentially force his Labor Party coalition partners to bolt. But that's a risk he may be willing to take in order to steal Netanyahu's thunder. On Sharon's left flank, the political fallout from "Operation Defensive Shield" may prove corrosive. While it's unlikely that Israeli forces deliberately killed Palestinian civilians in Jenin, the fact that Israeli forces found themselves flattening a swath of houses in refugee camp in pursuit of some 100 hardcore fighters is instructive of the type of war Israel faces in the West Bank. Those...
...Palestinian attacks of the past two months, the bulk of which have been focused in the West Bank and Gaza and carried out by Fatah militants, have created a major domestic political crisis for Sharon. The Israeli leader is under mounting pressure from his right flank to take more decisive military action against the Palestinian Authority. Whether through escalation or a truce, Sharon needs desperately to calm the situation. So does the Bush administration, which has belatedly discovered the extent to which Israeli-Palestinian violence prevents Arab allies from supporting a war to unseat Saddam Hussein. Arafat will have seen...
...Georgia's strategic significance to both Washington and Moscow runs far deeper than either the campaign against al-Qaida or the war in Chechnya. Georgia has been considered the strategic key to protecting Russia's southern flank since the days of the Czars. More immediately, it forms an indispensable part of the pipeline route favored by the U.S. for pumping Caspian sea oil and natural gas to Turkey without passing through either Russia or Iran...
...stunning Songzanlin Monastery, which could as easily have sprung from Hilton's imagination as that of a Tibetan architect. And Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives up to its billing. A steep scramble up the mountain's flank will bring hikers to the foot of the glacier, which lies at the heart of Shangri-la, according to the glossiest of the tourist brochures...
...Palestinian side, there are signs of a new willingness to move beyond traditional articles of faith, and even to challenge Arafat himself. The latter move, of course, is coming more from his own left flank, where some legislators, activists and intellectuals such as human rights campaigner Mustafa Barghouti have launched a campaign to strengthen Palestinian democracy - a direct challenge to the authoritarian cronyism of Arafat's regime - and a shift back towards non-violent protest against Israel's occupation in what they consider to be an "overly-militarized intifada." And Arafat's own point-man in Jerusalem, the philosophy professor...