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...half-Hungarian and half-Chinese, grew up in California but says she never really feels at home anywhere. “I just get really restless,” she says. “When I walk into a T station, sometimes I feel like I have to physically restrain myself from taking a train to Logan and somehow bartering my way onto a plane to the Balkans or something. It’s so easy to travel, and you learn so much from doing that than anything else...
...implies that the UN process, in Washington's mind, is intended primarily to prove to the rest of the world that there is no alternative to invasion. But for many Europeans and Arabs, the UN process remains their best hope of pressuring Saddam to do what it takes to restrain the U.S. from a war they fear could cause more problems than its solves...
...against either Iraqi missiles or Palestinian bombers. It would be politically difficult, and also morally inconsistent, for Bush to push Sharon to hold his fire in the face of attacks on Israeli civilians. That's why the White House may try to make Sharon a deal: If Israel will restrain itself in dealing with one of its adversaries - either Iraq or the Palestinians - then it can do what it wants with the other. The guess here is that the Administration's top priority is to prevent Israeli intervention in the campaign against Iraq, in part because any Israeli strikes could...
Saddam Hussein struck at Israel in 1991 precisely because he wanted to undermine the U.S.-led alliance and turn the Gulf War into a religious war. Back then, the Israeli leadership was wise enough to restrain itself, knowing full well that the U.S. would protect Israel and her interests. The same will be true this time around if (God forbid) there is another Persian Gulf War. Why should Israel risk an apocalyptic Arab-Israeli war for the sake of attacking Iraq when the U.S. is willing and better able to act on Israel’s behalf...
...With Sharon openly pushing for exiling Arafat, the Israelis are signaling that the name "Operation Matter of Time" was a carefully chosen message. While Washington's need for allies on the eve of an Iraq operation may restrain Sharon for now, there's a countervailing pressure in the need to look tougher-on-Arafat than his arch-rival in the Likud Party primary race, former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And once a U.S. invasion of Iraq gets underway and Palestinian attacks on Israelis continue, the chances of finding Arafat in Ramallah diminish exponentially...