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...until the militants disarm and abandon their vow to destroy Israel. And Hamas leaders are incensed by one facet of Olmert's plan: if Hamas refuses to accept Israel, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders unilaterally. "Why should we recognize Israel," asks Aziz Dweik, Hamas' new Palestinian Assembly Speaker, "when Israel won't recognize our existence...
...hungry man is an angry man." AZIZ DWEIK, new Speaker of the Hamas-led Palestinian Parliament, warning Israel of potential consequences from its decision to withhold the tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority...
House leaders are also showing a new flexibility. "We're going to look at all alternatives," House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who voted yes on the Sensenbrenner bill, said two days after the Senate committee's action. "We're not going to discount anything right now. Our first priority is to protect the border. And we also know there is a need in some sections of the economy for a guest-worker program." House majority leader John Boehner has begun talking dismissively about the feasibility of the 700-mile fence that the House voted to build along the border...
...potential for the 2006 elections to produce the same kind of upheaval on behalf of Democrats that the 1994 midterms did for Republicans? TIME talked to the architect of that victory, which put the GOP in control of the House for the first time in four decades. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he sees some serious problems brewing for his party that could indeed bring the Democrats back to power. The GOP's main problem, he says, has been its own performance. Given power, the reformers of 12 years ago are behaving just like the Washington insiders they used...
...first thing you do if you're [Senate Majority Leader] Bill Frist and [House Speaker] Denny Hastert is you say to the appropriate committees, "I want hearings on this scandal in New Orleans. I want Republicans saying this is a scandal...