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...time being, the strike against Yassin has pushed these matters aside and returned the focus of Hamas' wrath to its true enemy. Whatever possibilities were percolating of Hamas considering a peaceful solution have been overwhelmed by the movement's declaration of "open war." The Sharon government too is consumed by the idea that might can prevail. When I asked Rantisi, the new leader of Hamas, whether he would accept a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, he all but dismissed the notion. "Negotiations," he said, "never achieved anything in favor of the Palestinians." What continues to sustain Hamas...
...that his interests were in other areas and that an attack on the scale of 9/11 was unimaginable, he would have received the benefit of the doubt. Instead, he chose cynicism and pettiness--a response that, in biblical times, brings down not only the wrath of prophets but an occasional plague of locusts and a pillar of fire as well...
...that his interests were in other areas and that an attack on the scale of 9/11 was unimaginable, he would have received the benefit of the doubt. Instead, he chose cynicism and pettiness-a response that, in biblical times, brings down not only the wrath of prophets but an occasional plague of locusts and a pillar of fire as well...
...floor of the National Assembly. On March 12, the country's leading politicians were at one another again, chest shoving, dragging each other around like drunks at a rock concert, hurling profanities, punches, shoes and furniture. Decorum finally was restored for a floor vote, and all that energetic wrath was focused on one man: South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun. After a vote tally of 193-2, National Assembly Speaker Park Kwan Yong gravely announced that the legislature had garnered the two-thirds majority necessary to impeach Roh, plunging the country into a political crisis...
...respect for his desire that Christ's sacrifice be understood by all and for the gratitude among Christians that a Hollywood deity has finally made an accomplished and utterly unironical Christian film, one can only hope that he has it wrong. The Christian story includes joy, astonishment, prophecy, righteous wrath, mystery and love straightforward as well as love sacrificial. The Passion of the Christ is a one-note threnody about the Son of God being dragged to his death. That may be just the ticket for some times and for some benighted places where understanding human torment in terms...