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...government, leaving it without a parliamentary majority. Attending a forum at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, Hirsi Ali says, "The more this goes on, the more I think, 'Let's just all get on with life.'" She's getting on with hers - she has resigned from parliament and will leave the Netherlands shortly for a fellowship at Washington's American Enterprise Institute. But that's going to be harder for those who remain. Balkenende's Christian Democrats and the vvd are now trying to cobble together a temporary minority government, Balkenende's third in four years, and hold elections...
...Iraq's political life on terms supported by their community, there's little chance of the new government succeeding where its predecessors have failed. The move to indemnify and recognize the legitimacy of armed "resistance" against U.S. troops is strongly backed by the main Sunni parties in the Iraqi parliament...
...Even stronger opposition may have come from the main Shiite religious parties that dominate in parliament, and are virulently against concessions that they say rewards the insurgency. They are skeptical of what they see as a U.S. effort to pressure the new government to make concessions to elements that Shiite leaders see as having been the foot-soldiers of the Saddam regime. Shiite opposition appears to have forced Maliki, in the words of one British newspaper, to "trim the olive branch" being offered to the insurgents...
Kennedy is director of International Security Studies at Yale. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations (Random House...
...government. The violence reached new heights last week, when Hamas gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at the office of the Preventive Security Force, a well-armed stronghold of Fatah militiamen, setting off a gun battle that left 20 wounded. Abbas's supporters retaliated by torching the parliament and cabinet buildings controlled by the Hamas government. In Gaza, bearded Hamas fighters in tight black t-shirts stacked sandbags on street corners for machine-gun posts and took up sniper positions atop buildings. Across the street, Fatah gunmen were doing the same. Aziz Dwek, a Hamas Speaker of the Palestinian parliament...