Word: processing
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...strain on the agreement reached by Yasser Arafat and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres late Wednesday to implement the stillborn Sharm el Sheik agreement brokered three weeks ago by President Clinton. And that may have been its precise intention: The Islamic Jihad organization, which has rejected the peace process from the get-go, claimed responsibility for the blast. Its fellow Islamist organization Hamas, which has also used terrorist bombings as a weapon against the peace process, also vowed Thursday to ignore the latest cease-fire...
...even more formidable. Even if the Palestinian leader has now found the political will to rein in Palestinians confronting the Israelis with rocks and assault rifles, it's an open question whether he'll muster the necessary political authority. Never mind the Islamists who've always opposed the peace process and declared Thursday that they're not bound by any cease-fire; even the rank and file of Arafat's own Fatah organization now appears to favor struggle over negotiations as a means of dealing with the Israelis. The Jerusalem bombing highlights the fact that in order to keep...
...Despite the efforts of President Clinton, Arafat and Barak, the last cease-fire collapsed within 48 hours. And it may take more than an Arafat-Peres duet to give the latest attempt more traction. In the face of Hamas terror bombings designed to stop the peace process, the late Yitzhak Rabin had vowed to "fight terrorism as if there is no peace and pursue peace as if there is no terrorism." But for Barak there's not much peace left to pursue...
...older voters cast votes with far more regularity and in far greater numbers than young folks. And nobody seems to know why. I'd venture a guess: When balding and/or graying politicians continually make what appears to be an active decision to cut young people out of the political process, the impetus to get involved is sharply diminished. Of course, in defense of politicians - gasp! - there's a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum here: Do young voters ignore politicians because politicians ignore them, or do politicians keep their distance from young voters because they've proven themselves an uninterested voting...