Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caspian Sea to Turkey, but he needed to build one to the White House first. He tunneled under the U.S. intelligence community, dodged the doorkeepers who were trying to keep him out, shoveled at least $150,000 into Democratic Party coffers and finally broke through into the West Wing, where he joined the President for coffee and a screening of Independence...
...Many Israelis wondered what real security advantage all the tension and ill will had gained them. What the rest of the world regarded as a significant breakthrough for peace ranked as total betrayal to Jewish settlers and hard-line nationalists. At bottom, both his Palestinian foes and his right-wing faithful suspected the Prime Minister of terminal insincerity...
...after Hebron, when Netanyahu declared he would begin construction of 6,500 housing units for Jews on the hill in Arab East Jerusalem called Har Homa, it looked like another reckless move to appease the right wing of his coalition. This would be the last link in a chain of settlements surrounding the city that would permanently cut off the Arab part of Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Nothing inflames Palestinian opinion more than the creation of "new facts on the ground," especially those designed to foreclose Arab claims to the Holy City. Nor did the government...
...Turner Diaries is a white-supremacist novel considered a classic by right-wing extremists, and McVeigh is said to have been obsessed with it. The book describes how members of a group known as the Organization blow up fbi headquarters in Washington. In the particular passage found in McVeigh's alleged getaway car, the narrator explains that the bombing was necessary to wake up America. The prosecution will use this item to demonstrate the motive and the purpose of the bombing...
...right," notes McGeary. "He needs to receive something in return. And at the moment, he's not getting anything." Arafat wants Ross to convince Netanyahu to stop the controversial Har Homa housing project in Jerusalem. Netanyahu, though, must weigh that calculation against the pressures on him from the right wing of his supporters to maintain a hard line toward Palestinians. For his part, Arafat gave Ross assurances he would do his best to quell further violence, postponing a joint rally for Palestinian unity of his Fatah movement and Islamic militants. "If Arafat can get the settlements stopped, he may crack...