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...plans to try and prove that he's more capable of making peace than Barak. Long-term observers of the region wouldn't be at all surprised if Sharon begins by making some dramatic gesture toward the Palestinians, such as lifting the closure of the West Bank and Gaza that has been in force throughout most of the current intifada. Indeed, as a longtime counterinsurgency warrior, his approach may be to shift Israeli strategy toward punishing Palestinian leaders rather than the entire Palestinian population, as a way of isolating them from their own supporters. And sending positive messages...
...comfortably beaten by arch-hawk Ariel Sharon on election day - and that would reduce any new deal to no more than a chronicle of what might have been. Because while Barak has thus far failed to tempt Arafat to accept 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, as well as a patchwork of Jerusalem neighborhoods, Sharon has said that Oslo is null and void and that his idea of peace involves no further Israeli withdrawals from the territories Israel occupied...
Rupert's organization has plans for eight more such parks. By year end he will launch the first phase of a giant park straddling South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The GKG (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou) Peace Park will eventually have an area of nearly 38,600 sq. mi., the size of Portugal. More than 350 Mozambicans are being trained in game management and ranger work to provide for an expected increase in tourism to the new area. "I'm a realist who believes in miracles," says Rupert. "The secret is not to do things for people but to do things with...
...gates of the City of Rock It's a little after three o'clock on Friday and I catch a VIP shuttle from the Hotel Inter-Continental to the festival site about an hour away. The afternoon is still bright and sunny and hot. At the site, the paranoid Gaza Strip-y security is still in effect. There, our identification cards are swiped and we are allowed into the facilities. We're also supposed to be wearing ridiculous t-shirts identifying each us as VIPs, but, given the history of revolutionary activity in rock 'n roll in general and Latin...
Arafat will be under pressure to do so to satisfy the public outcry over collaborators whose work has helped Israel cramp the style of Palestinian fighters. But Amin Medani, chief technical adviser in the Gaza office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, argues that Israel's hits could lead to a situation in which rival Palestinian gangs can accuse anyone of collaboration as an excuse to rub someone out. That might prompt a nightmare mixture of killings and retributions that could only make an already chaotic situation worse. "It's not acceptable to have mob justice," says Medani...