Word: guerrillas
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...politicians and generals fear that holding onto those territories may represent an even greater threat to Israel's security. Sharon looks set to commit tens of thousands of troops to "pacify" the 3 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, and who are overwhelmingly supportive of guerrilla warfare and terrorism as means to end the occupation. If any outside army were looking to attack Israel right now, it would certainly be helped by the fact that a significant portion of Israel's military has to be deployed against an enemy within its current defensive perimeter. That...
...from the 1,000 or more who fought in the battle's first stage, and the bombing, though occasionally heavy, does not match the scale seen two weeks ago. But let there be no doubt: the enemy is still there, and he is resourceful. "Now it's hard-core guerrilla warfare," says a special-forces soldier. Shah-i-Kot seems made for this kind of fighting. After two weeks of battle, the mountainsides are scarred black; vehicles, barely recognizable, litter the trails. But on the rises and in the lees of this mountain redoubt, there is still movement. Columns...
Think of Jessica Stein as yet another victim in the endless urban guerrilla warfare of today's battle of the sexes. Trapped in a dull job, her ambitions as a painter thwarted, she draws her hopeless dating choices from a dismal sludge of geeks, nerds and cranks...
...mine. I can't abide the assumption that just because a country sits on top of natural resources, it is potentially rich. It is now conventional wisdom that the Arab economies are "failures" because they have wasted their oil wealth. After the recent death of Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan guerrilla leader, we were told that his nation should be one of the richest in Africa--all those diamonds and precious metals under the jungle...
...President has veered wildly across the political landscape and has been neutered in domestic policy since losing parliamentary elections in 1997. This forced him to appoint Lionel Jospin as Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government of socialists, communists and greens, and to wage a five-year guerrilla war against him ahead of the spring election. Voting for Chirac means no more than voting for an old campaigner...