Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...outrages were horrific and tragic, for much had been going right in the province. The 1998 Good Friday agreement ushered in a period of relative peace, stability and economic growth. But the bigotry and mistrust at the root of the conflict go on. Ulster remains essentially divided, Protestants and Catholics living separate lives. Education is segregated. Less than 5% of the children go to shared schools. Sectarian attacks are on the rise again...
...just last summer that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were huddling over a peace accord at Camp David. A year is an eternity in the Middle East. In the wake of last week's suicide bombing of a Jerusalem pizza parlor, the atmosphere of mistrust between Israel and Palestine is so toxic that Palestinian security officials accuse Israel of covertly distributing two tons of defective explosives in the West Bank, leading to the death of 25 bombmakers and causing injury to 100 others in 60 separate "work accidents" during the intifadeh. Israeli officials deny any plot, saying demand for explosives...
...shack in which the militants were meeting was hit by tank shells; Western journalists report that the explosion appeared to have occurred inside the shack, and the Israelis claim the Palestinians were killed by the accidental detonation of a bomb they'd been building. But in the climate of mistrust left by 10 months of fighting and the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, each side will simply believe its own account of that blast - or at least act according to their version, no matter what they believe...
...pounce. Their verdict was that quoting "minarets are our bayonets"; amounted to using religion to incite hatred - but many believe his greater crime was appealing to voters who wouldn't normally opt for a party with an Islamic reputation. The Virtue Party's aging leadership and the Turkish establishment mistrust one another, but they mistrust Erdogan even more. He threatened to head a popular movement neither could control...
...guilty and there is no innocent. I think this cycle of violence is creating a situation in which people are always expecting the worst. Not only the cease-fire is over, the hope is over. People are no longer hopeful for an end of this continuing exchange of accusations, mistrust and shooting...