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...actors: Mahmoud Abbas lacked the strength and the political will to stamp out Hamas; Yasser Arafat remained effectively in charge, undermining the efforts of Abbas so as to ensure his own continued relevance; Ariel Sharon didn?t take seriously the need for Israel to bolster Abbas and made only token gestures toward the "roadmap," and so on. But the fatal flaw in the "roadmap" lies not with the actors, but in the script itself. A look at how we go here, and what it will take to get out of this mess...
...live free of the fear that its children could be blown up in the street. That means a well-guarded border separating the two states, and that the governing authority on the Palestinian side prevents Palestinians from forming private militia, let alone planning terrorist attacks. By the same token, any workable peace plan would have to address the Palestinians? right to live free of Israeli occupation - curfews and closures, military strikes, land seizures for settlements or security operations and so on. It means that Israeli soldiers and settlers withdraw to their side of the border, and stay there...
...waged the terror war, the PA leadership brokered a truce agreement under which they would refrain from attacking Israel in exchange for prisoner releases and other concessions. Yasser Arafat remained very much in charge of the PA despite U.S. efforts to sideline him. And Israel confined itself to mostly token gestures in respect of settlement outposts, reversible military withdrawals from a couple of Palestinian areas and the release of a couple of hundred of the 6,000 Palestinian militants currently in Israeli prisons. (The prisoner issue is not actually covered by the ?roadmap,? but it is essential to the ?hudna...
...entirely liberated city?yet. The city's gays?mostly diligent, discreet workers and students?were relieved by Goh's recent announcement and by the generally supportive readers' letters published in the Straits Times (even if there were some hardened homosexuality-is-a-sin exceptions). But the token coming-out story that the newspaper also printed revealed just how many gays were still in closets, even if they do risk a visit to the clubs on weekends. It is also notable that the new gay theater piece, Existence, to be presented next month by the Fun Stage, portrays the love...
...noted that the beneficiaries of affirmative-action policies are burdened by having to "contribute diversity" and speak on behalf of minorities. That's an entertaining but flawed perspective. Affirmative action means Bacon will not have to be the only representative of blacks because there will be more than a token number at school or work, thereby enabling others to appreciate a variety of views and perspectives. Affirmative action doesn't force you to be the representative of diversity; it gives you the freedom to be yourself. Shirley J. Wilcher Accokeek...