Word: flashpoint
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...Syria's incessant demand that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights down to the June 4, 1967 borders by asserting that previous Israeli prime ministers have conceded the same. Now Barak ponders dropping the demand for a continued Israeli presence on the Mount Hermon early warning station, a flashpoint issue with the Syrians. Mount Hermon--the eyes and ears of Israeli intelligence gathering--was declared "just a mountain" by a senior Israeli intelligence official just three weeks ago. Assad observes that souring the average Israeli's opinion on peace motivates Barak to up the ante on concessions before he loses...
...with the Western alliance both flagging in its resolve to keep an increasingly messy peace and floundering in its efforts to define the purpose of that peace, ethnic bloodletting is threatening to erupt once more in Kosovo. Some 10,000 ethnic-Albanian protesters began marching Monday on the flashpoint town of Mitrovica, where nine people have been killed in clashes between gunmen on the Serb and Albanian sides of the Ibar River, which divides the town...
...most immediate obstacle to improved ties remains India's testing of nuclear weapons two years ago, and the subsequent U.S. sanctions. "Washington's primary concern in dealing with India right now is avoiding a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller. "Although both India and Pakistan now have explosive nuclear devices, they haven't instituted the vast intelligence and command systems needed for safe deployment of those weapons. With neither side even having the ability for advanced surveillance of the other, there's plenty of opportunities for a disastrous mistake as a result...
Jerusalem cops had better be stocking up on Maalox, because the city?s historic Temple Mount is shaping up as a flashpoint of, well, biblical proportions. Three right-wing Jewish militants were arrested Thursday after distributing leaflets urging Jews to expel Muslims from the hill, which is also home to Islam?s third holiest site, the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Jewish extremists ? who want the Islamic sites razed in order to rebuild the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 in the belief that it will hasten the Messianic era ? were egged on by a handful of American...
Parts of the district avoided problems by eschewing mandatory busing, a flashpoint issue for other communities...