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...that only force and unilateral action could defeat Arab nationalists, Jabotinsky wrote that “No agreement was possible with the Palestinian Arabs; they would accept Zionism only when they find themselves up against an Iron Wall, when they realize they had no alternative but to accept Jewish Settlement.”In an article published last week in Haaretz, Israel’s leading newspaper, Bradley Bursten recalls that “In 1977, the Likud of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir was derided abroad—and by the left at home—as a group...
...dominant. The U.S. economy was the most productive and innovative in the world, while U.S. political and military power was such that whatever Washington wanted - once it had made up its mind to want something, which could take time - it got, whether that was a settlement in the Balkans, or regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq. At Davos this year, the certainties of the post?cold war world seemed less fixed than they once were. Of course, U.S. ingenuity and productivity continues to lead the world economy; the home of Internet 2.0 will be in the U.S. just...
Octavio, 19, a shy mechanic from a poor settlement outside Tuxpan, knows how hard it can be, and he is trying to hold on. In March he paid $2,200 to a door-to-door smuggling service that picked him up in Tuxpan and dropped him off in the Hamptons. But it was no luxury ride. The trip took eight days, including three days and nights of nonstop driving from Douglas, Ariz., where he walked across the border, to the Hamptons. The Chevy Astro van that took him through the U.S. was crammed with 13 people--11 other Tuxpe?...
...control, and moved to Brussels where she became involved with her current husband, a man 12 years her senior. When, in response to this liaison, her father attempted to tighten the purse strings, Athina took him to court, winning full control of her money, minus an $84 million settlement for Roussel. Last September she set her sights on the foundation. But its board members say that Onassis didn't want relatives running his empire. In 2003, the board voted unanimously to scrap the clauses Christina had imposed, saying the notion of a hereditary presidency was against the "letter and spirit...
...made it abundantly clear that it had no program beyond waiting in vain for the Americans to intervene. Sharon, meanwhile, pressed ahead with a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and possible follow-ups in the West Bank. Those dramatic moves, however, were never conceived of as steps toward a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. On the contrary, they were drawn up as an alternative to a negotiated settlement, an attempt to resolve the problem of the occupation on Israel's own terms. Abbas has clung to the increasingly fanciful idea that by calming the situation in the West Bank and Gaza...