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...planning and approval of projects, and the establishment of a network of a series of parks and sites steeped in and serving up exclusionary, fundamentalist settler ideology." In its essence, the plan places a large area of Arab Jerusalem under Jewish control. "It risks transforming a manageable, soluble political conflict into an intractable religious war," he warns. For their part, many religious Israelis defend Elad's efforts to unearth their buried heritage. "For us, and for anyone who believes in the Bible, this is the real history," says Urieh King, a Jewish settler and activist. "These are our roots...
...that al-Qaeda sells to wage its war. We can separate al-Qaeda from the vast majority of Muslims by advancing a just and lasting peace that Palestinians accept ... We do this not to appease al-Qaeda, but because it is in our national security interest to end this conflict that breeds so much hate for our country...
...overgrown child seeking out a real life action movie. I will walk into Gaza with my eyes open and a deep understanding of the political and military situation there. I have studied the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for nearly ten years, I have edited a peer-reviewed book on the subject, and I have lived and worked in both Israel and the West Bank for extended periods of time...
...Syria, the return of an American ambassador is a much desired signal that the U.S. needs Syria to help stabilize Iraq, keep the peace in Lebanon and solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Syrians like to think of their country as the crossroads of the Middle East; they grew worried when Damascus simply fell off the itinerary of most major world players. More worrying is the country's dismal neo-Soviet-style economy, which needs reform and foreign investment if it is to create enough jobs for the country's young, growing and restless population...
...increasingly lawless and desperately poor; reserves of water, oil and cash are running dry. The groom's brother Bandar, who drove me to Taiz the next day, pointed out new roads along the way - all built with foreign donations. "The government here is absent," he said. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...