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...sections of the media are reinforcing the nation's paranoia," [June 1]. But you don't need to go to Pakistan. There was another example in the same edition, in "Postcard: Ramallah." Israel was forced to build the wall to try and prevent what is happening in Pakistan and Iraq, where almost daily innocent people are killed. Walls in other countries are also ugly - but they protect people. Carlos Blatt, TEL AVIV...
...have made him vulnerable to leadership challenges. A serious man, a well-meaning man, he's a hopeless communicator in an age of remorseless, ceaseless communication. He's also tribal and factional. Faultlines between his foot soldiers and Blair's adherents persist two years after collateral damage from the Iraq war - and the two men's bitter rivalry - persuaded Blair to stand aside. Labour's third term in office, secured in 2005, has been "blighted," says Neil Stewart, who was Political Secretary to Neil Kinnock, Labour's leader during its wilderness years in the 1980s and early 1990s. "This third...
...spent $903 billion in Afghanistan and Iraq since the conflicts began...
...belief in martyrdom is central to modern politics as well as Shi'ite tradition dating back centuries in Iran. It, too, helped propel the 1979 revolution. It sustained Iran during the eight-year war with Iraq, when more than 120,000 Iranians died in the bloodiest modern Middle East conflict. Most major Iranian cities have a martyrs' museum or a martyrs' cemetery...
...century, Hussein and a band of fewer than 100 people, including women and children, took on the mighty Umayyad dynasty in Karbala, an ancient city in Mesopotamia now in modern-day Iraq. They knew they would be massacred...