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...should expect the insurgents to throw their worst at us, and judging from their previous conduct we can expect the week of elections to be violent and bloody. As hard as it will be to bare any additional American casualties, we should not despair. We can, and I believe will, prevail in Iraq but only if we fortify ourselves and realize that next week might very likely be the most destabilized time seen since the end of major combat operations. Changing a country from a totalitarian dictatorship to a democracy is a radical step, and the first election will...
...increasingly younger children. In Spain around 7% of kids between 9 and 16 are victims of extreme bullying. A 2000 report on what many Spanish experts call "abuse among equals" in secondary schools noted that the country's "classrooms, school playgrounds, hallways and bathrooms ... often become regular sites for violent episodes." In France, almost 13% of students say they've been the target of multiple bullying incidents, while the number of violent incidents in schools - including verbal attacks, fighting and theft, as well as bullying - rose from 72,000 during the 2002-03 school year to 81,000 one year...
...Abbas, we hope he remains committed to his declared anti-violent stance and to accelerating reform in the Palestinian Authority. We expect that his choice of future government officials and cabinet members be based on their qualifications and capacities to serve the interests of their people—not their allegiances to political, family or tribal affiliations. Only this kind of government can properly build a healthy foundation of a free, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful state...
...Arabs throughout the Middle East witness the emergence of a new Palestinian leader who gained credibility and obtained power not by a violent coup or a monarchical nepotism but rather by popular vote, they will begin to question the established traditions of authority. It seems as if a new day has dawned for the Palestinians, and with sufficient international support and investment—such as President Bush’s invitation for Abbas to visit the White House and his promise to increase economic aid to the Palestinians—it can become a new day for Israelis...
...Abbas's differences with the militants of his own party is one of strategy and tactics, rather than of principle and goals: Abbas believes armed struggle is counter-productive because it hardens attitudes in Israel and destroys international support for the Palestinian cause. Instead, he believes non-violent tactics and diplomacy are the best route to the objective of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Marwan Barghouti sees armed struggle as an indispensable lever in pursuit of the same goal, seeing it as a complement to talks because he believes that the Palestinians capacity to wage...