Word: truce
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...unique blend of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a genuinely new kind of politician, one that both parties have lamentably failed to provide in the past couple of decades. In our political wars, he's a synthesis. In our culture wars, he's a truce...
...Kiichi Nakai), a Japanese swordsman in the Tang Emperor's court, is assigned to capture and kill "Butcher" Li (Jiang Wen), a once-respected army officer accused of treason because he refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter who stands in their path...
...persisted over that 30-year period. Hezbollah has always been based in Syria and in fact receives funding from the Syrian government. But despite this 30-year history of deadly terrorist incursions into northern Israel by a group supported by Syria, the Staff identifies Israel as violating the supposed truce that only it had been upholding after an isolated incident...
When Israeli missiles struck Syria last Sunday morning in what Israeli officials claimed was a retaliatory attack, they ended the 30-year truce between the two neighboring countries. Though the air strike against a disputed Syrian terrorist camp left only one person wounded, it also left many in the international community reevaluating when and how Israel should use its military force against other sovereign nations...
...mild pragmatism as nothing but smart p.r. Yet it was Abu Shanab who often hinted at how Hamas might accept something less than its maximal demands. As he explained a few days before the June 29 hudna, or cease-fire, went into effect, the same kind of "religious truce" could be extended indefinitely if "Israel would let us build our own state" in the old 1967 boundaries. Then his generation would "leave it to future generations" to decide whether the struggle would continue until Israel ceased to exist. "Theoretically, that would not be enough," he said. "But as a practical...