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...Palestinian citizens will be removed from their homes in Gaza and the West Bank” is so ridiculous that it is funny, as it makes use of a glaring Washington Post typo for malicious means. As part of Israel’s disengagement plan to withdraw Israeli troops and civilians from the Gaza Strip and part of the northern West Bank, 9,000 Israeli settlers are slated to be moved back inside Israel-proper this summer. This plan furthers the national goals of the Palestinian people by giving Gaza’s one million Palestinians—approximately...
...number of Palestinians on the other in order to maximize its effectiveness as a security device. It should also be noted that since the fence’s construction began, suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks in Israel have been drastically reduced. This has enabled the Israeli army to withdraw from several Palestinian cities and dismantle key checkpoints behind the barrier. The ad also manipulates the truth by failing to provide appropriate context for its claims. It states that “The wall ‘consists of 25 foot high concrete walls...
...struggle against Mugabe demands a much more drastic action from the MDC. In the face of Mugabe’s institutional invulnerability, if the MDC is not willing to go to war, the only effective alternative is to completely refuse to engage and cooperate with Mugabe. The MDC should withdraw from Zimbabwe’s sham democracy. Yes, this would cost the MDC its voice in the Parliament, but currently that voice is effectively silenced regardless. If the MDC, with its widespread popular support and significant (albeit useless) representation in the Parliament, had refused to participate in the past elections...
...which has financed several large-scale projects. The bill provides only $500 million for a Department of Energy program of synfuels research. The Senate is expected to pass a similar measure. As Congress has grown increasingly skeptical of synfuels, so too has the DOE. Last month it decided to withdraw $1.4 billion in aid to Great Plains. As a result, the plant's private consortium of owners announced that it was pulling out of the project...
...awesome responsibility that faced Reagan and Gorbachev was to withdraw from this distressing clamor and, in those quiet moments by themselves, search for some genuine gesture from each other. For the good of mankind. It did not matter if it was just a look or a word; it could be a start toward something much larger. --By Hugh Sidey