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...Hamas, having assumed responsibility for managing the infrastructure of Palestinian life and ensuring Palestinian well-being, continued terrorism - which would provoke Israeli retaliation and international sanction - would carry a potentially prohibitive political cost. Instead, Hamas will focus largely on domestic political reform on assuming the reins of power, and it will likely simply agree to disagree with Abbas on the issues of recognizing Israel and embracing existing treaties. But not embracing those treaties doesn't necessarily mean negating them. Hamas may calculate that as long as it refrains from terror attacks and delivers on promises of good governance...
Former President Jimmy Carter, who should have known better, interspersed his eulogy with furtive references to the Bush administration and what he believed to be its failings. Particularly pointed was his critique of the administration’s policy of wiretapping suspected terrorists without government sanction, which he likened to the FBI’s wiretapping and general harassment of Martin Luther King...
...people don't think about what it is they can't get." If anything, the Web has been a galvanizing force for Chinese nationalism. The anti-Japanese riots that broke out last year over a Japanese textbook that underplayed wartime atrocities in China were largely organized online--with government sanction...
...Like Jarecki’s 2002 film, “The Trials of Henry Kissinger,” “Why We Fight” is an exploration of the paradox of American foreign policy: namely, our willingness to sanction preemptive aggression, targeted killings, torture, and a host of other evils in the name of peace and democracy...
...Getting Iran referred to the Security Council would be a major step forward in U.S. and European efforts to turn up the heat on Iran, but it is no panacea. China and Russia, both of which have significant economic ties to Iran, are not likely to agree to trade sanctions. Instead, the Council may begin by simply demanding that Iran comply with its obligations under the NPT. It could then move to more limited forms of sanction, such as imposing travel restrictions on members of the regime. Less clear is what might happen if diplomatic pressure fails to persuade Iran...