Word: harshness
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...else to simply seek deals with local warlords in the scores of Palestinian cantons dotted across the West Bank and Gaza. But the idea of a negotiated political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be put in the deep freeze, and few observers believe even a harsh escalation in Israeli military action will end the current low-intensity...
...Such actions haven't stopped Palestinian militants making hit-and-run attacks and suicide strikes, but armed action by Palestinians has done little to advance their cause politically, militarily or diplomatically. The attacks have hardened Israel's resolve, alienated the West, brought harsh repression down on ordinary Palestinians and put the goals of statehood and Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza even further beyond reach. There's a grim consensus in Palestinian society today that the al-Aqsa intifada has achieved little for their people - but that doesn't stop the militants who flip the equation by asking...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...
...hold on power. Thus Beijing's severe crackdown on Falun Gong, the Buddhist-exercise movement that spooked China's leaders by getting 10,000 followers to protest in front of Beijing's leadership compound three years ago. The demonstration prompted the hasty passage of a law dictating harsh punishment to anyone involved in a cult?while conveniently failing to define what exactly constitutes one. "Anytime a religious group gathers strength, it's at risk of a crackdown," says Frank Lu, head of the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong. "Yesterday, it was Falun Gong. Today...
...make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," Harel wrote a day before the Hadera attack. "Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly in the northern sector. A harsh military response by Israel in the territories followed by renewed Palestinian attempts to conduct suicide bombings inside (Israel)." Harel questions the timing of Karmi's assassination, given the relative lull in violence that had followed Yasser Arafat's mid-December cease-fire call...