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...Vicente Fox can't achieve this quickly, as the case must pass through Mexican judicial system, which has been loathe to extradite Mexican nationals. But, he adds, "I know of no extraordinary hurdle" that would stand in the way of eventual extradition. The Mexican government might actually wish to rid itself of Benjamin Arellano-Felix, who has commanded a sizable private army of heavily armed loyalists. At present, says Hutchinson, he is being held in a Mexican military compound rather than a civilian prison because of security concerns...
...What happened next? How did you get rid...
...Bill Clinton got them all fired up with ideas about sharing Jerusalem. Before Oslo, Palestinians had spent five-years in a state of violent rebellion against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Oslo ended that revolt only because it offered Palestinians a peaceful means of getting rid of the occupation and achieving statehood in exchange for guaranteeing Israel's security...
...full normalization of relations” to which all the parties can agree must be given in order to ensure the future health and security of the region. Part of any normalization of relations between members of the Arab League and Israel requires the Arab states to rid their states of pervasive anti-Semitism, both in schoolbooks and in media reports; there cannot be a true move toward a “New Middle East” if Arab states continue to perpetuate hatred towards Israelis...
...futility of this endeavor is striking. There will always be the idea of our future selves who will look back and smile at the shenanigans of youth, but at what point are we going to rid ourselves of the burden of pleasing them? Do we wait until we’re comfortably settled in our careers? When we have children? Because if we don’t stop the trend of our future nostalgia, we run the risk of never actually getting the chance to sit back, remembering these days as the perfect illusion we constructed. Or, we might never...