Word: standoff
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...self-government were widely blamed on the refusal of the IRA to begin decommissioning its weapons, and the recent capture by Colombian authorities of three alleged IRA men accused of training that country's leftist guerrillas had done little to improve the image of the Republican cause. The Ardoyne standoff, however, is a reminder of the communal hatreds that helped spawn today's IRA, and of the ugly bigotry and extremism that persists in a section of the Loyalist movement...
...actually intensified the attacks as Palestinian fighters streamed into the village to join the battle, adding mortars and heavy machine guns to the fray. The cease-fire was achieved less by the force of arms deployed by either side than the by the political and diplomatic crisis the standoff had provoked. Indeed, Tuesday's plea by Israeli defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer to foreign minister Peres to step up diplomatic efforts to resolve the Beit Jala crisis suggests that the military had found itself in something of a bind. Its presence had escalated rather than curbed the firing at Gilo...
...objective is to wage war on the occupation. And that gives Arafat precious little room to maneuver. In July, when Gaza PA security operative Mousa Arafat had some local Hamas militants arrested, he found his home surrounded by armed men from Fatah, and Islamist and leftist groups - the standoff ended only after he agreed to release the men and undertook to cease the arrests...
...Nearly three centuries after his cello came in from the cold, individual touch and mass production are no longer at the standoff that began with the Industrial Revolution. Across Europe there has been a steady regeneration of craftsmanship, accompanied by an acceptance that in-with-the-new doesn't always have to mean out-with-the-old; good work and modern technology are not mutually exclusive...
...past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift from those who're good with their fists to those who're good with words. And as the current standoff over the long-silent IRA weapons shows, the hard men are sometimes reluctant to cede the role they play in an armed insurgency...