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...Abbas, on whom the Bush administration is relying to deliver Palestinian compliance with the "roadmap," has made clear that he can only do so with the consent of the radical groups. Abbas has held off on accepting security responsibility for Gaza and parts of the West Bank pending a truce agreement from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa brigades of his own Fatah faction, and has said repeatedly that he has no intention of using force against those groups, for fear of sparking a Palestinian civil war that he would likely lose...
...roadmap was initiated more than a year ago by diplomats engaged in the region as a response to the failure of previous cease-fire initiatives. It sought to strengthen the chances for a truce by tying a cease-fire directly to a quick and sure march towards Palestinian statehood along the lines envisaged in the final talks between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Ehud Barak in their final talks at Taba in January 2001. The U.S. participated in the "quartet" discussions that initially shaped the plan, but Washington moved closer to Sharon's efforts to seek a military...
DIED. BURKE MARSHALL, 80, practical, level-headed legal strategist during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who played a critical role in the desegregation of public facilities in the South; in Newtown, Conn. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights, the former antitrust lawyer crafted a truce in 1963 between business owners and civil rights activists in the embattled city of Birmingham, Ala.; helped engineer the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student, James Meredith; and helped draft and push through the Civil Rights...
...restraining militants from launching terror attacks was not enough. Implementing the "roadmap" would require that groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's own Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade be dissolved, disarmed and their leaders detained. While Hamas may have been open to discussing some form of temporary truce, at least to the extent that this was necessary to avoid being blamed on the Palestinian street and in the wider Arab world for the failure of a peace plan, it can plainly see that the success of the "roadmap" would equal its own destruction. Hamas's decision to break...
What draws intellectual types to the sport? There's something about the mere act of punishing a ball with a stick that brings about a truce in the eternal struggle between jock and nerd, and lures such luminaries as John Updike, Richard Ford, George Plimpton and the late Stephen Jay Gould to take their cuts. Are they slumming for street cred, trying to show that, like good postmodernists, they can switch-hit: both high-and lowbrow...