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Monday August 15 marks the deadline, prescribed by the U.S.-authored Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), for a new, permanent Iraqi constitution to be approved by the National Assembly. Political leaders have been in marathon negotiations for the last week in an effort to meet the deadline. But what happens if they...
...crew of Palestinian laborers chops the long green stems from Michael Goldschmidt's amaryllis bulbs in his stuffy hothouse. Goldschmidt, 57, sells the bulbs, grown in the Ganei Tal settlement in the Gaza Strip's Gush Katif bloc, for a dollar. After export to the U.S., the plants go for almost $70. With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza set for next month, Goldschmidt is taking as many of his 300,000 bulbs out of the ground as he can, in spite of his desire to stay in the place he's lived for 28 years. ?I absolutely...
...Gush Katif, announced that Israel would cede some of that Biblical land, religious Zionists questioned whether the great redemption was coming, after all. ?It's an ideological and spiritual crisis,? says Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, a religious Zionist leader. ?All this faith in redemption is collapsing.? Goldschmidt, the Ganei Tal farmer, resolves that quandary simply by asserting that ?Sharon's not a Zionist any more...
...Bremer's Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) looks likely to create a relatively weak central government in Baghdad, that was its intent - restraining any one ethnic or religious group from dominating others on the basis of a simple majority. But the price of that restraint has been to give the Kurdish minority the means to blackmail the majority, which in turn sets the scene for an acrimonious aftermath. The Kurds want to resolve such contentious issues as Kirkuk while their power is at its peak; the Shiites insist it should be done on the basis of a consensus achieved...
...sticking point in negotiations between the Shiite and the Kurdish lists has been less over the makeup of the executive branch than over broad guarantees demanded by the Kurds for secularism and adherence to the TAL (which is rejected, in principle, by Sistani, among others) - and more importantly, over Kurdish separatist demands. The Kurds are using the kingmaker status granted them by the TAL to demand not only that they maintain the autonomy they have enjoyed for over a decade under the protection of the Allied ?no-fly? zone, but also that their domain be extended to include the fiercely...