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...Staff’s endorsement of a fence to separate Israel proper from the West Bank completely glosses over the root of the conflict and will only be counterproductive towards an eventual settlement. Building a cage around the West Bank will only reinforce the Palestinian people’s sense of alienation and despair...
...Americans and Europeans see the tragedy of the Middle East in such different ways? In one view, the root cause lies in reactions to the attacks of Sept. 11; Americans have developed a deep hatred of terrorism and identify the Palestinian suicide bomber as a species of the same genus as an al-Qaeda mass murderer. But this tale is deeper and darker than that. In any event, all five of the largest West European countries--Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain--have good reasons of their own to detest terrorism...
...disagreements, Bush had to choose or lose. Rumsfeld, Cheney and the hard-liners rumbled for a quick action against Iraq, while Powell and the diplomats at State tried tapping the brakes. When the Middle East exploded in March, the hard-liners wanted to give Sharon a free pass to root out terror in the West Bank, and Bush seemed to go along. Powell pushed for a more even-handed policy - and prevailed only when the violence spun out of control...
...Arafat and the PA are so clearly in violation of the Bush Doctrine, then why do so many speak out against Israel’s right to root out terror? The answer is complicated, especially in America, where the desire to maintain support for an assault against Iraq obscures the issue. Nonetheless, some argue that although the Palestinian’s tactics are reprehensible, the motivation behind them is understandable, unlike al Qaeda. End the occupation, the argument goes, and the terrorism will cease...
These thrillers won't be chosen for the National Film Registry of great movies; as Enough director Michael Apted says, "This ain't Chekhov." They may not always pass the plausibility test. But these films do let audiences see top actresses playing strong characters. "People want to root for their favorite female stars," Foster says. "Audiences don't want a woman just to be the sister-of, daughter-of, wife-of. This proves they're not only open to, but absolutely behind, the idea of a woman going through some terrible danger and finding the gumption and the brawn...