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DIED. JOHN PROFUMO, 91, former British War Minister who resigned from the Cabinet in 1963 after lying to Parliament about his affair with a prostitute, Christine Keeler, then 19, whose other clients included a Soviet diplomat; in London. The Profumo scandal hastened the end of the eight-year reign of the Conservative government and encouraged the rise of a combative press...
...ites don't have a majority in the parliament, and in recent days, fissures have appeared in the Shi'ite alliance. But Jaafari is backed by the radical cleric Muqtada Sadr, an unpredictable political maverick with an armed militia, known as the Mahdi Army, that is widely blamed for much of the recent sectarian violence...
...Political wrangling has dragged out the formation of a new government; the parliament is scheduled to meet for the first time on Sunday, nearly three months after the general election...
...likelihood, Hamas, now in control of most of the Palestinian parliament, will remain passively loyal to its 22nd clause, which calls for the destruction of Israel. Nonetheless, it will not embrace terrorism as its foreign policy and will remain generally calm and in a state of hudnah (truce), both with the Fatah opposition and with Israel. The future is in Israel’s hands; it is Israel’s responsibility not to panic now as it stands at a crucial crossroads prior to the March Israeli elections...
Instead, Israel must remain calm. Violence begets violence begets violence. Has anyone tried anything else recently? Let us remain calm and allow Hamas to politicize itself, perhaps re-examine its agenda now that it is a majority in the Palestinian parliament and responsible for the entire Palestinian population. Let us not panic before we are provided with the reason to do so. Let us not crush the opportunity for a change before it even surfaces. Let us be unlike ourselves, and just give peace a shot. At the end of the day, either we give it a shot...