Word: foreigner
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...trading does not need to be regulated so much as monitored. We can assume that corruption exists, but the government does not yet understand the business; officials only recently even admitted that the price does not reflect supply and demand. If we dig deeper, we might find the foreign oil suppliers themselves, posing as speculators, to be the true villains. And deeper still, we will certainly find that the very system is flawed: in a world where hedging against high prices fulfills its own prophecy, we can be sure that prices will never be stable...
...should come as no surprise, then, that most Israelis have been up in arms ever since Sarkozy, the leader of a country historically hostile to Jews and currently critical of the Jewish state, demanded that their leader, the intrepid Benjamin Netanyahu, fire their Foreign Minister, the highly controversial Avigdor Leiberman. They have a point. After all, who is France to tell them—or, for that matter, anyone—what to do? For a president of one democracy to meddle in the internal affairs of another reeks of arrogance, especially—I’m sorry...
...this man to serve as the international face of Israel—a country already struggling to reform its image in the Middle East and the world—is nothing short of a disaster waiting to happen. On his very first day as Netanyahu’s Foreign Minister, Leiberman announced publicly that “those who want peace should prepare for war” and then went on to say that Israel was in no way bound to the agreements reached at the 2007 Israeli-Palestinian peace conference. I don’t know about...
...Israel has expressed a desire for peace, most recently with Netanyahu’s (albeit conditional) acceptance of the idea of an autonomous Palestinian state. But how can it realistically expect to achieve any peace at all with a man like Lieberman in the all-too-important position of foreign minister...
...effort so local people can see that the coalition's actions increase their security, in turn allowing them to get on with their lives. Up to now, the deaths of Afghans in the fighting have done little to aid the allies and a lot to turn locals against foreign forces and the government of President Hamid Karzai, which those forces sustain. This is a place - as British and Russian armies discovered and were sent packing after their discoveries - where the waters of vengeance run deep. "If the Americans kill an Afghan father, the son will take revenge and pick...