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...gunmen away from checkpoints. This is because the Israeli Defense Force will always vigorously defend checkpoints, working under the assumption that if it doesn't, the mobs will pour through and attack the Israeli civilans who often live right beyond. At the same time, Israel should refrain from rocket attacks against targets inside the West Bank and Gaza. Justified or not, they only worsen the situation...
Perhaps the group of fourth-graders was marred by "sample bias," having been selected from an unrepresentatively precocious pool of future rocket scientists and philosophers. The more likely explanation, however, is that the Palm Beach ballot is so ridiculously easy to understand that anyone who finds it confusing might render a greater service to the republic by simply staying home and not voting...
...loom over the West Bank and Gaza. Four Israelis and two Palestinians were killed in fierce clashes Monday, in a new escalation of violence that has followed Israel's decision last week to begin assassinating Fatah militia leaders it believes are orchestrating attacks against Israelis. Last Thursday's helicopter rocket attack on a local militia leader in Bethlehem reminded many Israeli commentators of their army?s tactics in Lebanon, and the association is an uncomfortable one for many Israelis. After all, they lost hundreds of young men there over the years, and were still forced to withdraw under the relentless...
...Does the rocket attack that killed a Bethlehem Fatah militia leader in his car mark a tactical shift by the Israeli forces in the West Bank...
...argue with such a forceful recommendation. Wolfe has been in the spotlight since his early days as a reporter. He's coined popular phrases such as "the right stuff" and "good ol' boy," and written an enormous amount of insightful and controversial material covering everything from American architecture to rocket pilots. His last big production, the 1998 A Man In Full, landed him on the cover of Time magazine in his trademark dandy white suit. There was an 11-year wait between Wolfe's last two books, but two short years later he's back again with Hooking...