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The blows against Hamas have prompted a debate in its ranks. Many of its activists are urging a temporary halt to terror attacks, fearing the group could be wiped out as a political as well as a military force. But others, particularly Hamas leaders based outside the West Bank and...
By last Wednesday, Bush was facing a growing mutiny in his own party to an idea he had yet to formally roll out. Republican senators and congressmen were raising more questions about invasion than Democrats. From moderates like Susan Collins to conservatives like Larry Craig, Republicans started putting on the...
Rumsfeld has given some of the Republican right's most outspoken (and forsaken) hawks a place to nest. Among them: former Vice President Dan Quayle, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and ex-CIA and Pentagon boss James Schlesinger. True, there are also centrist Republican members, like Henry Kissinger. But the...
By last spring, the uneasy equilibrium among the four forces was beginning to break down. "Moderates" in the Taliban--those who tried to keep lines open to intermediaries in the U.N. and the U.S.--were losing ground. In 2000, Mullah Mohammed Rabbani, thought to be the second most powerful member...
U.S., European and Arab diplomats have been conferring for the past two weeks on mechanisms to reform the Palestinian Authority and restore its capacity to police its territory. Israeli and Palestinian officials have also been discussing ways of easing the humanitarian suffering that results from Israel's closure of the...