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...what should be done? If the new course charted by Israel and the White House--of coddling Abbas and slapping down Hamas--seems likely to fail, what might succeed? In the long run, squeezing the Gaza Strip won't help moderate Palestinians any more than pushing democracy on them did. Avoiding a takeover of the Palestinian cause by even more radical elements will instead require a more pragmatic and clear-eyed strategy than the Bush Administration has so far pursued. And that means that sooner or later, the U.S. and Israel will have to find a way to engage with...
Separated by 30 miles, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank no longer share the same government. With Gaza under Hamas control, the U.S. and Israel are putting the West Bank first...
...GAZA STRIP Hamas routs Fatah; coalition government crumbles...
...unexplainable: why Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, exactly 25 years ago this week. In an anniversary spate of books and TV specials, the trendy theory is that the Mafia arranged the President's murder and the silencing of Oswald by Dallas strip-joint owner Jack Ruby. This, of course, clashes with the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone for his own twisted reasons and that Ruby impetuously killed the assassin to spare Jacqueline Kennedy the ordeal of a Dallas trial of her husband's slayer...
...Ruby, his gangster role is magnified by the recent books that go beyond the Warren Commission's portrayal of a strip-show proprietor and police buff. Some authors see him as a small-time hood in Chicago who worked his way up in what had been Al Capone's outfit. He was sent to Dallas in 1947, they say, with other Chicago gangsters to take over that city's rackets. Other reports had Ruby being exiled to Dallas by the Chicago Mob. Yet Marcello retained control of Dallas operations, working mainly through local boss Joseph Civello. The new books claim...