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...years, and who, despite the destruction of the Holocaust, created a modern, vibrant democracy in their homeland. Israel is not going anywhere. The more important question is: When will the Palestinians, Hamas, Hizballah and Iran recognize that it is in their interest to create their own modern societies rather than continue to try to destroy Israel? Israel has long accepted the two-state solution. When will Israel's enemies? Zvi Civins, CAULFIELD, VIC., AUSTRALIA...
...Rather than relish the praise, according to Maccoby, Updike walked to The Crimson to tell Maccoby that he had caused a “big problem” with Updike’s colleagues on The Lampoon, who were suspicious of what they thought was becoming “a special relationship” between the two eventual leaders...
...congratulatory messages received by then-Senator Barack Obama just after his victory in the tightly contested 2008 presidential race, perhaps the most interesting was a rather direct missive from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “The great Iranian nation welcomes real, fundamental, and fair changes in America’s behavior and policies,” he said, “particularly in the Middle East region.” Over the first few days of its tenure in office, the Obama Administration has made it a public priority to right the wrongs of the Bush years and restore...
...rests high on a bookshelf in a place of reverence in Bao's home. Zhao was deposed in May 1989, just before the Tiananmen crackdown, for sympathizing with the student demonstrators. Bao was arrested and spent seven years in prison for "revealing state secrets" and "counterrevolutionary propagandizing." Rather than silencing him, Bao's prison term convinced him of the need to speak out. "If I hadn't had that experience, there is no way I'd be so clear," he says. "It freed my thinking. It freed my eyes. It freed my mouth...
...Brigadier General Mansour al-Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, which runs the rehab program, claims the program's success stemmed from its guiding principle that jihadis are victims, rather than villains. "We think these people can be turned into normal human beings and be reintegrated into society," al-Turki told me when I visited Saudi Arabia during the Ramadan fast last summer. (Ironically, it was at the end of Ramadan that al-Shihri "disappeared," his father Jaber told the Saudi Gazzette newspaper...