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Keeping Secrets Once again, a TIME article has fallen into the trap of depicting Israeli settlements as the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East [July 27]. The key problem continues to be the unwillingness of the Palestinian leadership and most Arab states in the region to accept Israel as a Jewish state. This is a much more fundamental issue than whether someone in Efrat or Ma'aleh Adumim can build an addition onto their house. Henry Goldberg, CHICAGO...
Israel is long rumored to have had nuclear weapons. Why are all other countries in the Middle East being threatened with military action if they try to pursue that technology? Mostansar Virk, DETROIT...
...force of executive power when Air Force One revved up its engines, taxied up the tarmac a couple of plane lengths, then turned onto the runway, jet-blasting wind, dust and grit onto the journalists and camera operators. Trailed by two black suburbans, the blue-and-white jet moved east, then turned west, into the prevailing winds, throttled to full power and lifted the Obama's into the mountain sky and off to another working-vacation destination, the next town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado...
Bashardost rejects the numbers, and may be alone in thinking he can still win. His campaign is unrelenting. As the sun crept over the mountains to the east of the city, he and a small entourage headed for the airport to catch a free flight on an Afghan Army plane to Herat, in western Afghanistan, for another day on the road...
...which the Vietnam-war-veteran-turned-politician jetted in on a U.S. military aircraft to the heavily fortified Burmese capital to meet with the reclusive leader of the country's ruling military junta. On Aug. 15, Webb, who serves as chair of the Senate Foreign Relation's subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs, became the first top-level American politician to meet with junta head Senior General Than Shwe...