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Many analysts believe that Abbas could win the election. If he did, his record is encouraging. Born the son of a shepherd in northern Galilee, the trained lawyer known as Abu Mazen was an exile for 50 years, a dedicated nationalist and, like Arafat, a founding member of Fatah, the primary faction in the P.L.O. As the big man's deputy, he charted his own path. In the 1970s he opened channels to Israeli peace activists, and in the early '90s he led the Palestinian side in the secret negotiations that culminated in Oslo. Under pressure to reform the dysfunctional...
...impossible to count the number of enemy slain across Fallujah, but the attrition of insurgent forces in the city was decisive. In the long run, however, the rebels haven't been beaten. From the nature of the fight and interviews with insurgents before the attack, it seems clear the nationalist and jihadist leadership had by and large already left the city along with much of their ranks, leaving behind, in classic guerrilla style, a rearguard detail to harass and interdict U.S. forces. The Americans in Fallujah got a taste of what they may confront across Iraq's restive Sunni triangle...
...disconnect between the cycle of political elections and the generational cycle of demographics. That's one reason politicians haven't been willing to expend a lot of political capital in addressing it." It's not the only reason politicians have been leery. In Germany, Italy and Spain, nationalist or fascist regimes often glorified childbirth as a boon to the race. In many...
...Palestinians was best witnessed at his burial Friday in the West Bank. Heaving, chaotic throngs of mourners seemingly devoured Arafat’s flag-draped coffin, returning full-circle the leader who had emerged from their midst to raise and carry the Palestinian flag of resistance and nationalist aspiration for forty years. Working ceaselessly, often in exile from his native land, Arafat stubbornly represented his people and their cause and won them a hard-fought war for international legitimacy and recognition. Today the Palestinian national cause stands as a pressing issue in the minds of world leaders, diplomats, and ordinary...
Belgium's highest court ruled last week that the Flemish nationalist, anti-immigration Vlaams Blok - which took almost a quarter of the vote in the June regional elections in Flanders - is racist. The ruling could threaten the "Flemish Block's" receipt of official electoral funds, but the party is by no means scrambling for survival. Just days before the decision, party leaders had updated their 1977 founding statutes. "Before, the party advocated the expulsion of all non-European foreigners," Vlaams Blok co-leader Gerolf Annemans told the Flemish daily De Standaard. "Now foreigners can stay on the condition that they...