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...Palestinian people deserve a better leader, one who can rein in militant Palestinian factors and prepare an increasingly radicalized population for eventual peace with Israel. Unfortunately, the PA has spent the years since it gained power inculcating hatred in its children for Israel and for Jews through schools and official media. A large proportion of the Palestinian population now supports suicide bombings, and that attitude will not change until a leader arises who will give the Palestinians hope for eventual reconciliation...
...companies apparently showed an apparent callousness to events that actually resulted in them making a profit. In October 1998, Marathon Oil's internal economic analysis cheered the disruptive and destructive Hurricane Georges ("Nature stepped in to lend a helping hand") and appeared to welcome OPEC's "efforts to rein in output" as helpful to their business, which of course is the same as OPEC's, selling oil. And in 1999, BP Amoco (now BP) actually had a "Midwest, Mid-Continent Strategy" to avoid putting more oil on the market than their profitability could take...
...situation upon his departure Wednesday was telling in its similarity to what it was when he arrived: There won't be a cease-fire until Israel withdraws its troops from Palestinian cities, but Ariel Sharon plans to do that soon; Yasser Arafat needs to do a lot more to rein in terrorism. Sharon had, in fact, indicated last weekend that his troops would withdraw from most West Bank cities except Ramallah and Bethlehem by the end of this week. But what the Israeli leader means by withdrawal is unlikely to be enough to coax the Palestinians into a truce - Israeli...
...Bush administration's failure to persuade Sharon to let the Palestinian leader travel to Beirut to lend his support to a Saudi proposal to normalize relations with Israel once it withdraws to its 1967 borders. And Arafat has been in no hurry either to take new action to rein in militants or sign on to a cease-fire plan his aides see as weighted in favor of the Israelis...
...total of four years, and there hadn't been a single communal riot, giving widespread hope that the BJP had gone centrist and wouldn't allow its chauvinistic urges to disrupt a country discovering itself economically - or, at the very least, that the supposedly moderate Vajpayee could rein in the wilder elements of his group. But last week's violence was sparked by more Hindu chest thumping in Ayodhya, where militant Hindus want to build a grand temple on the site of a mosque destroyed by mobs in 1992, which was virtually guaranteed to set off trouble...