Word: reem
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...will take more than this incident to solidify an anti-Iran coalition, however. Reem al Hashimy, deputy at the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, says her country will go along with U.N. efforts to constrain Iran but won't "stick its head out" any further...
Abhorrent as such images might seem, the story behind them is even more wrenching. Aired on a TV channel run by the Islamic militants of Hamas, the two-minute re-enactment was based on the life of Reem Riyashi, 22, a Palestinian mother of two who blew herself up in a suicide attack against Israeli soldiers at a Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza...
...likely that more Palestinian women will end up meeting the same fate as Reem Riyashi. Though there were just six suicide attacks against Israelis in 2006, two were carried out by women. "There's a growing involvement of Palestinian women in terrorism, everything from scouting targets and smuggling guns and explosives to becoming suicide bombers," says Anat Berko, an Israeli counterterrorism expert at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who spent 13 years inside Israeli high-security prisons interviewing convicted terrorists. And yet it remains difficult to pinpoint why certain women turn to martyrdom. Behind the motives...
...Iranians are not suicidal. They know that they could be wiped out in a retaliatory attack. And Krauthammer neglected to mention that only the U.S. has used the Bomb. The real problem is the tyranny of the established nuclear powers that threaten, bully and invade nonnuclear nations. Reem Nasr South Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. Blood Sport Re "The talented Torero" [March 27], on matador Mehdi Savalli, the up-and-coming star of Spanish bullfighting: How can Time, a respected magazine, publish a story on such a despicably brutal pastime? Its fans are sadistic, inhumane and intent on continuing a medieval...
...Iranians are not suicidal. They know that they could be wiped out in a retaliatory attack. And Krauthammer neglected to mention that only the U.S. has used the Bomb. The real problem is the tyranny of the established nuclear powers that threaten, bully and invade nonnuclear nations. Reem Nasr South Brunswick, New Jersey...