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Department of Homeland Security •prescience of in predicting right-wing violence is followed by failure of to actually release the report containing said predictions because, boo-hoo, some right-wing groups didn't like...
...America's strong bonds with Israel are well known. This bond is unbreakable. It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations - large and small - that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity...
...relations with the Jewish state if it withdraws from Arab territory conquered in the war of 1967. And as the leader of the Sunni Arab world, it has joined with Washington in efforts to contain the growing regional influence of Shi'ite Iran. (Read "Jihad Waning in Osama's Homeland...
...port and a coast attractive for tourists, South Ossetia has scant economic activity, making it largely dependent on Russia. Kokoity has frequently expressed hopes that South Ossetia would join North Ossetia, across the border in Russia proper, to recreate Alania - the land South Ossetians see as their ancestral homeland. But Russia, mindful of international disapproval for changing borders by force, has announced no plans to absorb the region into the Russian Federation...