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...stand still to what Israel does to us without any reaction. We are sending the message that we are refusing to be occupied. Military victory is not possible, but the only alternative is surrender." When I asked how martyrdom advanced Hamas' aims, he replied with the kind of logic that makes the most optimistic despair of Middle East peace: "What of your soldiers in Iraq who are being killed day after day? Those are martyrs sacrificing their lives for 'American interests.' So why do you call Palestinians murderers if they sacrifice their lives for our interests...
...Jayeh near Ashkelon. "If we fear Israel," he said, "that will leave them in our place. That's what happened to our fathers and grandfathers. So one of the lessons for us is never to let go of our land under fear of Israel." Living by that logic has cost Ismail Abu Shanab the chance ever to go home again. By Johanna McGeary
...really, by Hollywood logic, how can it miss? A so-old-it's-new story, with an Oscar-winning hunk's name attached, and enough prerelease controversy surrounding it that millions of moviegoers will feel obliged to see it. Oh, sorry, that was Gigli...
...poked its nose out into the sea, he tried once again to explain what on earth possessed him, why someone with no background as an adventurer and no special expertise in maritime history would undertake such an arduous voyage. Baffled, it seems, that anyone might fail to grasp the logic of his epic expedition, he murmured with quiet conviction, "I just want to prove that it can actually be done...
...Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says Weill, 64, of his odyssey: 'I never thought it could be anything approaching this.' ... Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting cast-off companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail ... 'I have never in my life said anything was the culmination of a dream,' Weill observes, 'because if you stop dreaming, I can't imagine what...