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...position that Hamas instigated this recent conflict in Gaza: They were brainwashed by the biased mass media. Unfortunately, Mr. Moore’s facile and foolish belief that the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was Israel’s only motivation for its incursion into Gaza misstates the root cause of Israel’s actions. The kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, a direct violation of Israel’s borders and an internationally recognized act of war, was the straw that broke the camel’s back. From the moment Israel disengaged from the region in August...
...Jihadi culture is also taking root in the Palestinian territories, with the Bush Administration routinely denounced in apocalyptic tones during Friday prayers at mosques throughout the West Bank and Gaza, and recordings of Jihadi songs and chants selling briskly at West Bank bazaars. Westerners also face a growing risk of kidnapping, and the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has warned that Americans traveling in the Palestinian territories are no longer safe. The consulate in mid-August issued kidnap warnings for Gaza and the West Bank after the abduction of two Fox News reporters. On Wednesday, kidnappers struck again: an American...
...City Manager make arrangements amongst themselves that save them a lot of money,” he said. “The neighbors are in complete fog. They don’t know what is going on.” Whitfield said the tree’s roots may have been damaged by equipment used in Harvard’s construction project. But Harvard Director of Community Relations Thomas Lucey said the damage was already present in 2004, prior to the construction, according to a survey done by a certified arborist. The arborist reported that the tree...
...just over one-third of that expected for her age, and she now seems to be little more than a distended stomach, bulging head and collection of scrawny limbs. According to the chart at the foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root of her problem is chronic diarrhea, a daily killer of 5,000 young children in the developing world and the cause of one-third of child deaths in Bangladesh. Her 15-year-old mother, Jharana, had never heard of diarrhea before she was advised to take Sohag to ICDDR...
...Those working to protect children in Cambodia agree that the police force has recently shown a far stronger commitment to targeting pedophiles. But it's not just law and order that is doing the trick. A new political will to root them out is the result of diplomatic incentives and pressures, both the carrots of international donors and the stick of the U.S. State Department, say child protection workers...