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Neither Yasser Arafat nor Ariel Sharon is a freedom-loving democrat. Both are clearly to blame for the escalation in violence. But the problem is much larger than them. It stems from Israel’s 35-year occupation of Palestinian lands. In 1967, in the third Arab-Israeli war, Israel’s army moved outside the country’s internationally recognized borders into Arab lands. The United Nations promptly told Israel to leave, pronouncing the occupation illegal. The troops still haven’t gone home. But a growing number of them are demanding just that. Perhaps...
...Among the "illegal settlers," Hussain was told, was a Middle Easterner of particular interest to the U.S. In the police chief's office, with its vaulted ceilings, the Americans passed around a sheaf of photocopies, each bearing a photograph of a thirtyish Arab with wire-rimmed glasses and furtive, intense eyes. Next to the photo were drawings of how the suspect might look with long hair, with a goatee or clean shaven...
...world by now knows too well the story of the two peoples, Jew and Arab, warring over a narrow strip of land, a dry and sacred place between the River and the Sea. Their struggle was decades old even in 1947, when Israel fought its way to independence against the combined might of the Arab world, and the wars and intifadas since built up a great weight of hopelessness and woe over the Middle East, so that throughout the Cold War decades the very words Israel and Palestine conjured images of blood and suffering and intractable, undying hatred...
After all, there are worse weapons than fertilizer and suicide drifting through the lawless fringes of the earth. It takes a dark spirit to wield them —but then, the soul of the Arab world has gone very dark indeed...
...explosives directed against toddlers, octogenarians, and other innocents has been to surround and hole up Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat in his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah. This move, and the military incursions into other Palestinian cities, have been met with cautions and reproach from the Arab world, Europe and now even the U.S., with Ariel Sharon receiving daily exhortations from President Bush to end the offensive in the West Bank immediately...