Word: destroyer
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...pushing him abroad would embolden him to collude openly with terrorist groups and organize strikes against Israel. Cabinet ministers told TIME that at 5:30 a.m. Friday, Sharon settled on a different strategy: Israel would officially identify Arafat as an enemy, "isolate" him in his Ramallah headquarters, destroy the surrounding buildings and arrest or kill Palestinian militants they believed had holed up inside--but would stop short of raiding Arafat's bunker. "The only commitment we've made," Police Minister Uzi Landau told TIME, "is not to kill...
...news media and the government produces both the most wry, as well as the most allegorical moments of No Such Thing. Beatrice and the monster strike a deal—the monster will return to society and not kill anyone if Beatrice agrees to find the scientist who can destroy him. But what’s the use of a monster in a society that has lost its collective capacity for awe? “I mean, don’t you think the idea of a monster today is just so irrelevant?” a reporter asks...
...government researcher who tortures the monster in a mad quest for grant money. Representing the more noble aspect of humanity, there is of course Beatrice, as well as Dr. Arto, a physicist and musician bedazzled by the rhythms of the universe and endowed with the power to destroy the monster. (You’ve seen these bad scientist/ good scientist types before, consider E.T. and A Beautiful Mind, respectively.) Overall, there is nothing particularly original about these stereotyped characters, but in the context of this monster fable, they seem as surreal and whimsical as the creatures from Alice?...
...into chaos. Bush's speech reflected the fierce debates within the administration over how to respond to the conflagration. He expressed sympathy with the goals of the Israeli operation, citing Israel's need to defend itself, but he called for its end on the grounds that it threatens to destroy the long-term prospects for peace. The President tore into Arafat for failing his people in refusing to stop terror attacks, but at the same time held out a carrot with strong calls for Palestinian statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Even more alarming to the Bush administration, though, was the prospect that Israel's operation might destroy prospects from a peace agreement and leave the region in a state of low-intensity war for the foreseeable future. Not only has the Israeli operation deepened the radicalization of the Palestinian population; it may also have mortally wounded the Palestinian Authority's security structures. And those security structures are an indispensable pillar of any cease-fire or peace plan, because they will be responsible for preventing attacks on Israelis. If the current offensive leaves their ability to maintain order impaired, Israel will...