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...loving Mediterranean country as if it were Iraq or Sudan. That's because the previous embassy was destroyed by a suicide car bombing in 1983, an attack that the U.S. blames on Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God that had been formed a year earlier to resist the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. But this café meeting was taking place in the spring of 2005, after mass demonstrations and U.S. pressure had helped force one of Hizballah's patron states, Syria, to end its occupation of Lebanon. The American official was thrilled by the turn of events ("There...
...defend the settlers' right to build on Palestinian land, a right the settlers say is based on the argument that it forms part of the Biblical Land of Israel. (A poll commissioned by a settler university published Friday showed 56% of Israelis calling for the Prime Minister to resist Obama's demands...
Kaiser's message to all of the groups is to resist the temptation to cut their programming and their profile. When times are bad, it's crucial to make yourself interesting and vital and to let everybody know you're there. "Organizations that are cutting performances and marketing are going to be the losers," he warns. He also cautions them against reaching for the most familiar programming--Beethoven's Fifth! The Nutcracker! Grease!--in the hope of drawing guaranteed crowds. "I talked to an opera company recently that has done some adventurous programming," he says. "But this season they were...
...Originally a small-scale guerrilla group in southern Lebanon formed to resist Israeli invasion in the 1980s, Hizballah built its reputation on a dogged ability to repeatedly hold its own against Israeli forces -an achievement nearly unprecedented in the Arab world. (See rare pictures of Hizballah's youth movement...
...their hearts they still had faith that evil would not triumph in the end, that while history is unknowable it arches towards progress, and that the world would one day remember them. And it is now up to us, the living, in our work, wherever we are, to resist injustice and intolerance and indifference in whatever forms they may take, and ensure that those who were lost here did not go in vain. It is up to us to redeem that faith. It is up to us to bear witness; to ensure that the world continues to note what happened...