Word: truce
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Perhaps a truce, and not a war, is the answer...
...FINAL TRUCE? On March 9, East and West Coast icons Diddy and Snoop officially buried the hatchet by touring together. Days later, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame--the first hip-hop artists to achieve such recognition. Some feuds may go on, but rap's Wild West era may be over...
...which offers full recognition of Israel and normalization of relations in exchange for a withdrawal to the Jewish State's 1967 borders, and a "just solution" to the Palestinian refugee issue). But it offers no explicit recognition of Israel. And while it raises the possibility of extending a truce, it does not actually renounce violence - in fact, it explicitly reasserts the right to "resistance" until the Israeli occupation is ended. Not all Palestinians take that as a call to arms, yet it's hardly what Washington and Israel wanted to hear. "This represents a step back," says Israeli Foreign Ministry...
...truce has held solid with very few exceptions, affording Air France the stability needed to close the gap with competitors that had been restructuring and modernizing since the early 1990s. Ironically, Air France began its overhaul just as business began to pick up. So the company is in the midst of a renewal of its fleet of 254 aircraft--including cabin overhauls--without taking on massive debt. It has spent $5.2 billion to put 85 new aircraft into service in the past five years, with an additional 22 on order, including 10 Airbus 380s...
...with the Jewish state. Hamas leaders have thus far tried to cobble together an acceptable formulation, saying their members in government would recognize past agreements, which implicitly recognize Israel, and that Hamas as an organization would, if Israel withdrew to the 1967 borders, be willing to sign an extended truce. But Mashal and others have repeatedly ruled out explicit and unconditional recognition...