Word: palestinians
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw may still exemplify the special relationship that has traditionally existed between the U.S. and Great Britain, practically finishing each other's sentences as they trouble-shoot their way through Iran?s nuclear brinksmanship, Israeli-Palestinian hostilities or sectarian tensions in Iraq. But as the two learned on Friday, a vocal part of the British people don't necessarily share a sense of kinship with their brethren ? or at least their brethrens' elected government ? across the Atlantic...
...many Israelis, this vote wasn?t just about the big picture - dealing with a hostile Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza. It was also about more personal issues: as Israel drifts away from its socialist origins of collective farms and all-embracing welfare towards bustling capitalism, it has ignored the poorer folks left behind. That, say analysts, explains the voters? tilt to parties such as Labor, led by Moroccan-born Amir Peretz, which focused its campaign on social inequalities, and the parties such as Shas and Beiteinu that championed the neglected but sizeable Sephardic and Russian communities...
...Three huge errors" - overconfidence, narcissism and underestimating the importance of culture - actually boil down to one: American arrogance. The rest of the world disagreed with plans to invade Iraq, but the Bush Administration thought the world was cowardly. The world, well aware of conditions in Northern Ireland, the Palestinian territories and Kashmir, anticipated chaos in Iraq, but the U.S. government thought it knew best. As that country falls apart, Sullivan needs to ask if Iraq will ever emulate South Africa, Romania or even the Philippines, each a place where democracy germinated because its seed was planted by the populace. Narmada...
...truth is that no matter who wins, Israelis know their next prime minister will probably dispense some bitter medicine: a pullout of some Jewish settlements inside the Palestinian territories in exchange for permanent borders. Political analysts say Olmert - who inherited both the self-described centrist Kadima party and its main platform of "disengagement" from Ariel Sharon, still in a coma after a massive stroke last January - has tapped into a new pragmatism among Israeli voters. Co-existing with the Palestinians, especially with a government next door now run by Hamas, now seems an impossibility to most of them. A vote...
...turn out to be Likud?s Netanyahu. A gruff ex-Prime Minister nicknamed Bibi, Netanyahu managed to anger most of his right-wing voters after taking office in 1996 by cutting subsidies for the big families of ultra-Orthodox Jews and by giving away part of Hebron to the Palestinians. This time around, Netanyahu tried to stop Kadima?s surge in the polls by scare-mongering about Palestinian terrorism and hurling personal insults against Olmert, but these tactics backfired. At best, Likud can hope to become a junior partner as part of a Kadima-led coalition, though most analysts believe...