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...Israeli decision comes just days after a Palestinian gunman killed eight male students and wounded eight others last Thursday at a seminary closely linked with the Jewish settler's movement. The government's announcement is seen as an attempt by Olmert to pacify the pro-settlement, rightwing politicians within his fragile coalition. Israel Radio reported that Olmert approved the settlement construction in the face of threats from the ultra-orthodox Shas party to pull down his government. Work will now restart on settlements in Givat Zeev, an ultra-orthodox enclave in the West Bank, and in the East Jerusalem neighborhood...
...stanch the violence, and the planned deployment of 17,000 more has been delayed by Sudanese-government intransigence, insufficient troop contributions and a lack of equipment--notably helicopters, a critical component when policing a region almost the size of Texas. Attempts to get the warring parties to negotiate a settlement have gone nowhere. The rebels' goals vary wildly, and their personalities are prickly. "You can't have a peace process until [the opposition groups] sort themselves out," says Alex de Waal, a Sudan expert at Harvard University. "They'll want to prove themselves on the battlefield before they get serious...
...story of Australia's settlement has as its refrain the taming of what celebrated historian Manning Clark called "that rude and barbarous land." The first settlers found themselves in an alien world, and for the convicts among them, the land's harshness must have seemed part of their punishment. The nation's self-image was shaped by those colonists' experiences of hardship, hunger, hostile natives, droughts and floods - their sense, from the outset, of being profoundly at odds with the land they had to call their home...
...many, better than what they'd left behind. One convict wrote of being "unaccountably indifferent" to the notion of returning home. Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum skins and copied the Aborigines' moccasins, trying native foods and Aboriginal bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung...
...lite soon had an ally in Lieutenant Governor George Arthur. "If my hands are strengthened," wrote Arthur in 1825, "I hope to make transportation a punishment which, at present, it certainly is not." His legacy would include chain gangs, the horrors of the Port Arthur prison settlement, and hundreds of hangings. Though at one point, Boyce reveals, he considered partitioning the island, he would also oversee the wiping out of the indigenous tribes...