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History will tell that the Israeli-Palestinian narrative is merely a tale of surprises and enigmatic suspense.Hamas won a significant victory in last week’s Palestinian elections, to many observers’ surprise. What happened? The entire universe of reason and common sense seems to be falling apart—who is to blame? The responsibility for Hamas’s electoral victory lies across the board. Fatah’s decades of corruption and incompetence, and Israel’s fixation on improvising unilateral plans of action to resolve a persisting crisis, has diverted precious resources that...
...most violent manifestations to date, but fury over the cartoons has been spreading fast from Muslim communities in Europe through the Middle East all the way to Indonesia. Its spread has been accelerated by widespread anti-Western anger over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Western moves to block the development of Iran's nuclear ambitions. And the uproar is being exploited by regimes such as Iran and Syria, who hope to turn the widespread outrage over the cartoons among both radicals and moderates into political support in their own confrontations with the West...
...Sharon became symbolic of the true soldier, a warrior and an aspirant for peace. He remains an undaunted hero, but no individual is indispensable. Israel has no dearth of successors to Sharon. K.C. Subhash Chandra Bangalore, India Whoever becomes the next prime Minister of Israel knows that the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world will never want peace of any kind. They will always want to knock off Israel. William Blakeslee San Diego Perhaps there will be a better chance for peace for Israel after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has left politics. How can anyone forget Sharon...
...craning that last year was reserved for Sharon Stone.) U.S. multinational companies continue to dominate global business, just as U.S. universities would dominate any list of the best in the world. But while we were in the Swiss mountains, Hamas won a landslide - and thoroughly unpredicted - victory in the Palestinian elections, overturning established patterns in the Middle East and demanding hurried improvisation in Washington. Last week's State of the Union speech by President George W. Bush was full of implicit reminders that the U.S cannot always bend elemental forces to its will. Even the mighty U.S. economy cannot simply...
...recent Palestinian elections presented voters with an extremely difficult choice. By many accounts, the widespread corruption and inefficiency of Fatah had the Palestinian people clamoring for competent government. Fatah’s primary opposition, Hamas, had demonstrated its effectiveness with internal social programs, but this domestic competency was accompanied by a disturbingly extremist attitude toward Israel. Faced with this choice, Palestinian voters opted for Hamas. Although it is doubtful that all voters support Hamas’ terrorism—rather, many were probably looking for an alternative to the stagnation and alleged corruption of Fatah—the so-called...