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There's just one problem with that strategy: it won't work. The world clamped a boycott on the Palestinians after Hamas' victory over Fatah in the January 2006 elections; but as Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter, says, that U.S.-Israeli policy "put a lot of pressure on the Palestinians in Gaza, which helped to radicalize them without any compensatory relaxation for the Palestinians on the West Bank." The U.S.'s new "West Bank first" strategy aims to correct that shortcoming, but given the Palestinians' defiant mood, the tardy gift could turn into a nasty surprise...
...judgment. Education Minister Roman Giertych, the League's leader, angrily denounced the European court, saying it had virtually declared that "a human right is a right to kill." His wife added that a woman who has an abortion should be punished with a life imprisonment. Nevertheless, the health minister Zbigniew Religa said that most likely Poland will not appeal the ruling...
After the church's silence on the topic for decades, says Zbigniew Nosowski, editor of the Catholic monthly Wiez, it has no choice but to examine its past...
...Bush cabinet as the replacement for outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he can be expected to urge President Bush to talk to the leaders of Iran - an option Bush has thus far avoided. Gates made his own views on Iran policy known in mid-2004, when he joined Zbigniew Brzezinski - President Carter's National Security Advisor - in chairing a task force of scholars who issued a report titled "Iran: Time for a New Approach...
...Iraq is widely agreed, including in Washington. For a hyperpower to be disliked may be inevitable. For it to be incompetent over a long period is deeply corrosive to its capacity to lead. "People hate the U.S. for not being able to handle the situation in Iraq," says Zbigniew Lewicki, professor of American Studies at Warsaw University. "It has failed in its duty to fix things." In the eyes of many Europeans, the same goes for Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent, and for Islamic terrorists, too. Al-Qaeda and its allies have not mounted another attack on the scale...