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...analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace agreement with the Palestinians, one that pledges both sides to resolving disputes through negotiation and limits the arms the P.A. is entitled to have. On the other hand, the Israelis themselves have repeatedly violated...
...both sides apprised themselves of the lessons of that country's near-miraculous negotiated peaceful transition away from minority rule. And in Egypt's official Al Ahram, commentator Hani Shukrallah offers a withering critique of an intifada hijacked by suicide bombers. "The Biblical Samson strikes a ridiculous, rather than heroic, figure," he writes. "Not to mention that our attempts to bring down the temple over the heads of our enemies as well as our own invariably miss the enemy altogether. Not only do we manage to lose a great many more heads than does the enemy...
...film, I must take exception to an omission from TIME's list of "The Greatest Combat Films of All Time" [CINEMA, Dec. 17]. In my opinion, the very best and still the most relevant combat film ever made was Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), which featured heroic performances by Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Cimino earned an Oscar as Best Director, and Walken got one for Best Supporting Actor. REIN J. VANDERZEE JR. San Antonio, Texas...
...analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace agreement with the Palestinians, one that pledges both sides to resolving disputes through negotiation and limits the arms the P.A. is entitled to have. On the other hand, the Israelis themselves have repeatedly violated...
...after the plane crashes from every imaginable angle; firemen, relief workers, politicians, animals; the makeshift memorials around the site. Some of the most poignant photos are of people reacting to the events at hand—images which capture the shock and the horror as well as the heroic solidarity of rescue workers. Images full of human pain and suffering are equaled by images which show human nature at its fullest and most noble...