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Will the episodes bolster Hamas' support? Many Palestinians are weary of the increased financial and political isolation they have endured since Hamas took power in January. But now anger will probably be aimed at Israel, deflecting attention from Hamas' failure to solve those crises...
What about Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' proposed vote on a plan to recognize Israel's pre-1967 borders? More than before, "the Palestinian street is furious with Israel," says an official in Abbas' Fatah bloc. Through that lens of anger, Abbas' plan looks too conciliatory , and peace seems an ever dimmer prospect...
After the DelugeNovember 11, 1980The analytical vultures of both print and screen have already picked the bones of the 1980 Reagan victory clean, telling us it’s a watershed in politics, it shows the nation’s anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness about the economy, its growing conservatism, its resurgent Republicanism. Whether few or all of these interpretations prove correct, the commentary has undoubtedly heartened many of the voters who elected Reagan, who voted Senators George McGovern and Birch Bayh out of office, who passed proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts, who elected...
Upon returning from Davos several days after the leak, Summers was greeted with a chorus of blame for the public embarrassment of Kirby. He had tried to quell the rising Faculty anger by compromising with professors on the process for appointing Kirby’s successor—a power traditionally exerted solely by the president—but even that did not placate his staunchest critics...
...stay onside with Palestinian public opinion. That may help explain why the movement - under pressure from Arab governments to make it easier to stand up to U.S. pressure to cut all financial aid - has been debating a move toward a de facto two-state solution. But if the anger generated on the streets by Abbas's referendum ultimatum is sufficiently widespread, Hamas may decide to call his bluff - because they believe they can win the issue where it counts, in the streets...