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...particularly over the past year where terror attacks are a grim relentless routine, perhaps nowhere more so than in my home city of Jerusalem. Yet the attacks against Israel’s citizens do not take place in a vacuum. For example, Dershowitz would demand that the Palestinian Authority combat terror while Israel maintains a siege imprisoning three million Palestinians in their towns and villages. Though the siege has tripled Palestinian unemployment and reduced 60 percent of the Palestinian population to poverty, there is ostensibly no connection between this poverty and despair and the increased willingness of Palestinians to attack...
...talks that are hoped to lead to a cease-fire within the next few days, shows that Israel’s current measures have not been adequate. Islamic Jihad continues to operate unchecked within the Palestinian territories, and the Palestinian Authority, despite its words, has done very little to combat the terrorists...
Granted, Clinton did take some steps to combat terrorism on U.S. soil by signing the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act in 1995, which made an international terrorist act committed in America a federal crime. The bill, however, was grossly inadequate because it did little to address terrorist threats on foreign soil. Making terrorism a federal crime will hardly dissuade fanatics from executing their plans abroad...
...audience raucously applauded the evening’s varied entertainment, which ranged from flamenco-inspired Spanish dance and a Tae Kwon Do combat scene to an interpretative painting with roller skates, among many other humorous and unusual segments...
...curricular changes were introduced to combat common complaints about particular classes and lack of feedback on written work...