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...just TIME now?"), I asked Davis how she was going to fill the coming Oprah void. She said she guessed she would go to church more and get her spirituality that way. The last time the end of an entertainment program caused an uptick for the church was when the Romans canceled throwing Christians to the lions...
...disastrous as the current uptick of violence is proving for Sharon, it's actually working to Arafat's advantage, for a number of reasons: It highlights both to Israelis and the international community the fact that Sharon's tactics have failed to calm the situation; It creates a unity of purpose between his own Fatah organization and the more radical Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, putting on the backburner differences that have recently sparked intra-Palestinian violence; It reinforces (Palestinian-backed) calls for international peacekeepers, as the rising toll of child casualties on both sides raises the danger...
...Zeit University survey, from 38 percent to 52 percent. Turns out that two months of virtual house arrest by the Israelis has been something of a political tonic for the Palestinian leader, his fortunes rising as long as he's allowed to play the victim. And the sharp uptick of violence appears to have reminded a growing number of Israelis that regardless of Arafat's status, resolving the problem of the occupation remains at the center of their conflict with the Palestinians. Arafat and Sharon have both been playing a waiting game since the Israeli leader's election a year...
...Uptick in violence...
...Arafat's organization officially insisted that it remains committed to the cease-fire, but it was the organization's own rank-and-file members that claimed responsibility for the latest terror attack inside Israel. And the sharp uptick in violence over the past week will further darken prospects for any resumption of dialogue - already grim in light of suspicion over Mr. Arafat following the discovery of an arms shipment bound for the Palestinian territories from Iran...