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...that reiterates the gaping incompatibility between dogmatic religion and democratic dissent. After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed dressed as a suicide bomber, many Muslims rose up in arms, setting embassies in Beirut and Damascus ablaze, storming the European Union (EU) office in Gaza, boycotting Danish products or withdrawing their ambassadors, and desecrating the Danish flag. The cartoon, clearly offensive for its rendition of the prophet as a terrorist, further incensed Muslims, for whom any depiction of Mohammed is sacrilegious. Despite the odious nature of this and other similar cartoons, however, the response from...
...that tames the passions unleashed over the past month, there's every reason to expect the voices of Muslim discontent to grow more assertive, not less. "Before this, people believed that Muslims were sleeping and would never wake up," says Yusef Hamdan, 23, a radio engineer in the Gaza Strip. "But the cartoons prove you can provoke the Muslim nation." Having lit the fuse of liberty in the Arab world, the U.S. has little choice now but to watch it burn...
...ceding to them the Sinai Peninsula, which included both thousands of Israeli citizens and numerous oil fields. Twenty-two years later it was another Likud government—that of Ariel Sharon—that ceded yet more territory to the Arabs when it completed the disengagement from Gaza this past summer...
...iconic image of last week was in the Gaza Strip. It was of a Palestinian gunman astride the local office of the European Union. All the diplomatic staff had fled, tipped off ahead of time. The source of the militant's ire? A series of satirical cartoons originally published in Denmark. Yes, cartoons...
...better chance for peace for Israel after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has left politics [Jan. 16]. How can anyone forget Sharon's "indirect" responsibility for the killing of Palestinian civilians in Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982? Those who believe that Sharon's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a peace initiative need to think again. Yes, he was pragmatic and confronted extremist Jewish settlers; however, he did not demonstrate enough of the goodwill needed to win over the Palestinians. Saleh A. Mubarak Seffner, Florida...