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...plot begins when Timon, a wealthy Athenian merchant, spreads his seemingly limitless riches among his friends and lavishes penniless Athenian artists with his patronage. He has no ulterior motive: he is simply a kind and generous soul who lives, unconsciously, far beyond his considerable means. His life becomes full of complication once the steward Flavius reveals that Timon's estate is mortgaged to the hilt. As the news leaks out, creditors begin to hound the generous merchant. Timon is forced to appeal to his friends, who, predictably, refuse...
...peace alive, has invited Arafat and Barak to the White House once the violence subsides to talk about resuming those negotiations. But there's a strong urge among Israelis to turn their backs on the Palestinians, whose leader rejected at Camp David this summer what they see as a generous offer of about 95% of the land in the West Bank. "Arafat is leading the Palestinians toward the declaration of a hostile state born in conflict, not from the peace process," Ben-Ami tells TIME. "Separation is the inevitable response...
...most disturbing statements centered around the myth that Israel has offered the Palestinians peace. This can only be considered true if you accept a demand for total capitulation as a legitimate peace offer. That "the most generous offer Israel has ever made" calls for Israeli military control over one of Islam's three holiest sites (the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem), the perpetuation of a system of apartheid where Palestinians and Arabs can aspire to be no more than second-class citizenship and the continued defiance of numerous U.N. resolutions says more about Israel's problematic commitment to peace than...
...third argument is that the Palestinians irrationally rejected a "generous" peace offer. Everyone wants peace, but an unjust peace is both unfair and impractical...
certainly hope that Yale has been as generous, although we fear they have...