Word: indirection
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...days after agreeing to indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority through U.S. envoy George Mitchell, Israel announced on March 9 the approval of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, whose five-day visit to the region makes him the highest-level member of the Obama Administration to visit Israel to date, condemned the plan, saying that it "undermines the trust" needed for negotiations to proceed after a 14-month deadlock...
...always worries about being co-opted,” Hamburger said, acknowledging that the committee will play an indirect role in the implementation of changes related to the library system. “I think the [FAS] dean’s actions are entirely in good faith...
...ever hostile Palestinian population by withdrawing from Gaza and walling off the West Bank, the Israelis have lost interest in land-for-peace deals. So not only are Israeli-Palestinian peace talks largely moribund, but the Netanyahu government has dodged Syrian requests for direct talks, calling instead for indirect talks whose goal would be to agree to a cessation of hostilities rather than a return of the Golan Heights. That's a nonstarter for Damascus; no Syrian government could make peace without recovering the Syrian territory Israel occupies...
...with anything other than basic tactics and small-to-medium firearms are limited. One frustrated American trainer of Afghan soldiers confided to me that his Afghan mortar team was going nowhere. With little understanding of geometry, the soldiers were depending on guesswork, rather than precision degrees, to aim their indirect fire - in a populated region where one or two degrees off could mean the difference between dead goats and dead civilians...