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...grim scenes of all-out war in the West Bank seemed to have a particularly depressing impact in Washington and Crawford, Texas. After months on the sidelines, the Bush Administration recently tiptoed into the peacemaking fray--to contain the combat between the Israelis and Palestinians but also to try to assuage Arab resistance to a U.S. military campaign against Iraq. Palestinian and Israeli sources told TIME that both Sharon and Arafat called Secretary of State Colin Powell as Israel mobilized its forces last Friday. When Bush woke up Friday morning in Crawford, he was informed of the Israeli assault during...
...would it begin? In one grim scenario, it would start with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who is in the most exposed position of all. His controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty...
...California and recruit a marketing whiz from APPLE to run it. The company evolves from a humble provider of computer mice to a seller of everything from cordless keyboards to webcams. And then it goes bust, right? That's the way the story is supposed to end in this grim, post-bubble era. But LOGITECH is defying that logic...
...Neither side makes any secret of the fact that they'd rather not be dealing with the leaders on the other side - and that's a grim portent for the prospects of the Mitchell proposals, whose starting premise is that "each party again be willing to regard the other as a partner." Instead, Sharon and Arafat have spent the past three months engaged in efforts to remove the other from his seat of power...
Since Sept. 11, the United States has viewed much of the world through a lens of terrorism. There is some logic in viewing Israel through this lens, particularly over the past year where terror attacks are a grim relentless routine, perhaps nowhere more so than in my home city of Jerusalem. Yet the attacks against Israel’s citizens do not take place in a vacuum. For example, Dershowitz would demand that the Palestinian Authority combat terror while Israel maintains a siege imprisoning three million Palestinians in their towns and villages. Though the siege has tripled Palestinian unemployment...