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Nothing to Talk About


(Washington Post) David Ignatius - Is there any way to stop the horrifying dance of death between Israel and its enemies? Are there terms under which Islamic militants might agree to halt their suicide bombings? In an interview at his heavily guarded offices in Beirut last week, Hizballah head Hasan Nasrallah said, "I can't imagine a situation, based on the nature of the Israeli project and the nature of the Israeli leaders, where the Palestinians would agree to lay down arms." Like most discussions of terrorism I've had in the Arab world, it was a formulaic exchange in which the question and answer seemed to come from different moral universes.
2003-10-09 00:00:00
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