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...even Hutchinson then reverted to what the Northern Irish call "what aboutery"--joining other politicians in circular arguments blaming the current outrage on some past transgression by the other side. The immediate goad here was said to be a summer full of attacks on local homes with stones and Molotov cocktails, which had been fueled by disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June...
...touched three continents since the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. But over a year and a half, the level of violence has been gradually stepped up. At the annual conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague last September, protesters hurled Molotov cocktails and chunks of pavement into the faces of Czech police officers. At a summit of the European Union in Goteborg, Sweden, last month, live rounds were fired by the police, and three protesters were injured, one seriously. In a story on the riots last week, TIME quoted Shaun...
...business for 30 years. He's thinking of organizing other Asian businesses to support the looted white-owned firms. He's doubtful that the rioters had any coherent politics; they showed up downtown to confront a rally by the racist National Front, which was banned, so they turned their Molotov cocktails on the police. Slowly they were pushed back toward his neighborhood, where, he says, "some of them took advantage of a situation that was out of control." But even this pillar of the community is suspicious of the white power structure. He says he called the police...
This time, instead of frogs and locusts and hail, we have snipers and suicide bombers and Molotov cocktails. And while terrorism and mob violence are reprehensible actions, not glorious acts of God, Israel should take them as signs that there is an imbalance of power that it as a nation has the ability to remedy. Until Israel ceases its latest military campaign of closure and terror and treats the Palestinians in the territories and within Israel as dignified human beings, the plagues are not going to stop...
...last night of shooting for Elia Suleiman's feature film, "Chronicle of Love and Pain." On a quiet street in Sheikh Jarrah, an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem, the 40-year-old director's special effects team is having trouble with a Molotov cocktail that's supposed to be thrown in this scene. A group of gawking Palestinian youths offers to help make a good firebomb. "They have experience with this kind of thing," Suleiman says wryly. A 40-year-old from Nazareth, Israel's biggest Arab town, Suleiman takes the gritty realities of life for Israel's 1 million Arab...