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...creating one. Washington has never had the power to bend either adversary to its will, and now its influence is at low ebb. After months of mixed messages and policy shifts, Bush dispatched his Secretary of State to restrain Sharon and Arafat, only to watch both sides continue the slaughter. Despite three public calls by Bush for Israel to withdraw, Israeli forces trampled through the West Bank, bulldozing suspected terrorist safe houses and bombmaking facilities, stripping hundreds of Palestinian men, cutting off water and electricity in some towns and laying waste to the Palestinian Authority's infrastructure...
Among Palestinians, it has become normal--noble, even--for promising men and women to slaughter themselves in pursuit of revenge and the dignity it is thought to bring. "What was once more of an individual decision by a small group is becoming much more mainstream," says Jerrold Post, an American psychiatrist who has studied suicide bombings in the West Bank. The suicide-homicides have come to be seen by most Palestinians as their last, best hope. In June a poll taken in the Gaza Strip found that 78% of the population approved of suicide bombings, considerably more than supported peace...
...right. Israeli government sources told TIME that hours before the assault on Arafat's compound--retaliation for the Passover slaughter by a Hamas suicide bomber of 20 Israelis and a tourist in the seaside city of Netanya--Prime Minister Ariel Sharon informed members of his Cabinet that he wanted to send forces into Ramallah to arrest Arafat and expel him from the Palestinian territories. "We should send Arafat away, out of the country," Sharon said. "We should not let him stay." But the heads of Israel's intelligence and security agencies all argued that releasing Arafat from the four-month...
Amid the wreckage that the suicide bombers have wrought, to speak of moral equivalence between the combatants is to enter the madhouse. There is no “cycle of violence” here, in which all parties are guilty. There are Palestinian attempts to slaughter Israeli civilians, and Israeli attempts to capture and kill those responsible for the atrocities —which includes, of course, Arafat himself, whose government gives aid and comfort to the men and women tearing gaping wounds in the world with their bodies and their bombs...
...labor union, and leaders still deride worker movements as "the Polish disease." It was the sudden emergence of China's first independent union in May 1989, during the Tiananmen Square uprising, that prompted the leadership to send in the tanks. (A large number of the uncounted victims of that slaughter were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen; in the crackdown that followed, only workers faced execution. Students received jail terms.) These days, those who challenge China's single, official labor union still face harsh penalties. Cao Maobing, for example, tried to set up a union at his state-run silk...