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...want to be responsible for such actions. We try, as a government, to be responsible for the Palestinian people, for the security of the Palestinian people, and we are trying to make contacts with all people in order to find a solution and find some way to prevent escalation...
...Qaeda's role is a minor concern, compared with the need to understand the bombers' motivation. What triggers young Muslims' interest in the ideology of extremist Islamic organizations? Research indicates that for many, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been an important catalyst. Measures designed to prevent terrorism can also have the undesired effect of further radicalizing young Muslims. Many young British Muslims feel that an attempt to change the law to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for up to 90 days, and the use of control orders to incarcerate suspects in their own homes, have...
...propelled both sides to the brink of full-scale warfare. While surveillance drones buzzed overhead, some 7,000 troops, 80 Israeli tanks and 180 armored personnel carriers massed at the border with Gaza, territory Israel evacuated less than a year ago. The Israelis seized Gaza's dilapidated airport to prevent Shalit's kidnappers from moving him out, with units ready to mount a rescue raid if Israeli intelligence or its informants picked up word of Shalit's whereabouts. Had the offensive stopped there, it might have seemed to most people a defensibly legitimate, if extraordinarily intense, operation for a single...
...framers guarded the freedom of the press in the First Amendment to make sure the press had the freedom to question the government. Jefferson and Madison believed that democracy could easily descend into tyranny and a vigorous press was necessary to prevent our leaders from getting too full of themselves...
...whether they moved in together with the full intention to get married, or whether they moved in together just because it was the logical thing to do, since he was always at her place anyway. You might think that living together is a sort of "trial period" that helps prevent bad marriages, since they can break up before taking an oath to each other. But the odds suggest the opposite; they divorce more. Why doesn't this filter work? Very likely, whatever it was that made them not want to get married in the first place ended up becoming...