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...covered in the dust of bombed-out rubble--brings those who live in more comfortable neighborhoods back to its old quarrels. Canada, the saying goes, is a nation with too much geography and not enough history. The Levant is the world's un-Canada--a small sliver of land in which ancient grievances are played out again and again as if they held the key to understanding tomorrow...
...among states in the region or outside it about what an ideal peace between Israel and the Palestinians would involve. Since before World War II, most reasonable observers have known that sooner or later, two states--one with a Jewish majority, one with an Arab one--would share the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. That was the basis of the talks between Israel and the Palestinians in the last year of the Clinton Administration; it was acknowledged by the meeting of Arab states in Beirut in 2002, when they committed themselves to "normal relations" with Israel...
...Nazih Gharios, the head of the hospital, took me to the rooftop to survey the surrounding land. "Look there," he pointed to a deeply hollowed out patch of land. "There was the first air strike to hit the area." He was pointing no more than 100 meters away, and he was making me nervous. "Should we really be on the roof?" I asked. After all, Sahal Hospital just 10 kilometers away has been pounded by air strikes. This is shocking to Dr. Gharios, who has seen numerous conflicts in the past. "Hospitals and ambulances were usually off limits," he told...
...need to abandon abstractions and focus on finding sustainable ways for others to provide for themselves.Three 60-year-old brothers occupy my memories of the early part of this summer: Don Saúl, Don Celso, and Don Rubén. Each of them owns a small plot of land in the rural Pacific town of El Pumpo, where cattle grazing was profitable until the same plots of land became divided amongst increasing numbers of children. The next generation of Guatemalans in this town only has three viable ways to live: working in Guatemala City under dreadful conditions, taking the long...
...Norway is conducting an unnecessary and irresponsible slaughter of endangered whales, which is far from the truth. The Norwegian whale hunt is strictly regulated and scientifically monitored to ensure a continued healthy population of the target species, the plentiful minke whale. In a country where only 3% of the land is arable, maintaining a small capability to obtain a domestic source of food means looking to the sea and managing the resource carefully. Helga Katherine Pratt Battle Ground, Washington, U.S. Your story seemed to suggest that all whaling is morally wrong, without distinguishing between harvesting endangered species and those that...