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...should look at myself," says Hassan, 43. "We're not saints, but Israelis also can't be allowed to believe that they're saints who are somehow forced to do evil things." A year ago, Hassan drove down from the hills around Nazareth, heading for Tel Aviv. On the plain near Afula, he watched columns of Israeli tanks moving toward Jenin. At night, he could see the explosions in the camp. Palestinian leaders claimed Israel had massacred as many as 500 civilians there during 12 bloody days of combat. In fact, 54 Palestinians, mostly fighters, were dead, as were...
Malkovich and Shakespeare do not make a big melodramatic point about that. Rather, her character becomes emblematic of the fluidity and confusions of a country veering toward chaos, a place where sudden death and plain decency constantly brush against, even interpenetrate, each other...
...Plain cussedness has often torpedoed talks between India and Pakistan, especially over Kashmir. In 1999, Pakistan's generals, led by Pervez Musharraf, sabotaged the so-called Lahore accord because they felt the Army had been left out of the loop. The 50-day battle they launched on Kashmir's Line of Control destroyed any chance that agreement might have had of succeeding. Two years later, when President Musharraf journeyed to Agra for a summit with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the negotiations broke down because the Indians refused to accept the classification of Kashmir as a "disputed territory...
...destruction of his home by bombing [IMAGES OF WAR, April 14]. You titled the photo "The Price of Peace." It looks as if you've joined other news purveyors in buying into the Bush Administration's claim that war inevitably results in peace. What this picture shows is, plain and simple, the agonizing price of war. Whether peace will follow is a question only the foolish would try to answer now. MARIAN R. PLACE Durham...
...Eugene Linden is the author of "The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability." His website is eugenelinden.com