Word: martyrize
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...frustration at their inability to break out of a strategic logjam that has made commonplace the spectacle of broken, bloodied bodies on the streets of Israel?s cities despite the best efforts of its military to kill the commanders and operatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade. Some argue that Arafat is the terror kingpin, that the whole Oslo enterprise was a tragic mistake that Israel now has an opportunity to rectify by turning back the clock 12 years. Others see him a cynical power broker flitting between the different Palestinian constituencies and tolerating, rather...
...Hill also stresses the importance of financial backing, since a potential martyr's family is likely to be left destitute, as Hill's was until an anonymous supporter came forward with a large check...
...Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played out in multicolored dots. But 1933 brings an abrupt, definitive change in subject matter and style. The pale, thickly painted watercolor-and- plaster Head of a Martyr fills its small frame with downcast eyes and a battered, gap-toothed mouth. The circular face of Marked Man (1935), painted in scratchy russets and browns, is a target scarred with black crosshairs. In 1936, Klee returned to his Bauhaus preoccupation with constructing colored forms, but with a more foreboding...
...killed by a rocket attack on his car in Gaza, was the very Hamas leader with whom Abbas had negotiated the "hudna" truce agreement. Israel?s message to Abbas was clear: Either you destroy Hamas, or we will. And Hamas and Islamic Jihad - and surely, also, the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades after three of their men were killed Friday in Nablus - have vowed to take grisly revenge. They, too, have a message for Abbas: Step aside...
SENTENCED TO DEATH. AMROZI BIN NURHASYIM, 41, the first defendant to be tried in last year's terror attack on a Bali nightclub that killed 202 people; in Bali. Following the sentencing, the former motorcycle mechanic, who has said he wants to be a martyr, grinned and flashed a thumbs-up sign to the courtroom. Nevertheless, his attorneys have filed an appeal...