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...We’re not weak, we’re not powerless,” Amiri said...
...deaths of Ze'evi and Zibri illustrate how the intifadeh has taken those who were on the fringes of political credibility and made them symbols capable of rallying entire populations. Before the Aqsa intifadeh, Zibri's P.F.L.P., a faction of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, was a powerless joke in the West Bank, a has-been group that clung to its Marxist ideology and its naysaying on peace with Israel. Ze'evi was a marginal right-wing extremist who often advocated the "voluntary transfer" of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In death, both have become...
...years of toil have given Chen the broad shoulders and sturdy frame of a man decades younger. But despite his brawn, he is powerless to save his home from the rising waters of the $20 billion dam project. The world's largest reservoir, 550 km long, will displace 2 million peasants, including Chen, who is tight-lipped about this coming progress. "If you think the dam is bad," he says, "best you don't say anything at all." He's far more voluble about the old path, which will also be submerged, and the way he used to drag...
...have seen (Palestine) what happens when the political wing is handed over to the extremists because moderates seem powerless to effect change (whether or not that is the fault of the moderates or their political opponents...
...that doesn't represent any great political weight among Palestinians, nor among the Arab states aligning with Washington. The Palestinian Authority is essentially powerless, and incapable of delivering Palestinian support...