Sayyid's story makes a powerful symbolic counterpoint to Saddam Hussein's capture on Saturday night. A young man hides in a crypt for over two decades as Saddam Hussein rules the land as a brutal and absolute dictator. The American-led coalition liberates the country. The no-longer-young man comes out of his stifling cell and staggers into the sunlight just as the monstrous ruler abandons his gleaming palaces and himself begins haunting crypts to escape the authorities. शनिवार की रात को सद्दाम के पकड़े जाने की घटना के साथ इस कथा का प्रतीकात्मक महत्व है। जब सद्दाम हुसैन ने अपनी भूमि पर एक क्रूर और आत्यन्तिक तानाशाह के रूप में शासन किया तो एक युवक दो दशकों तक कब्रगाह में छिपा रहा। जैसे ही अमेरिका नीत गठबन्धन ने देश को मुक्त कराया वैसे ही एक क्रूर शासक अपने महल को छोड़कर अधिकारियों से बचने के लिये एक कब्रगाह की खोज करने लगा और अब नवयुवक नहीं रहे इस व्यक्ति को अपनी कोठरी से बाहर आकर सूर्य के प्रकाश को देखने का अवसर मिला।
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Ashkelon Municipality has planned an emergency meeting for Saturday night regarding the city's schools, and whether they should continue to function regularly despite the frequent attacks. Ashkelon Parents' Committee Chairman Yinon Jibli said a final decision would be reached at the meeting's end. “We will respect the municipality's decision but it seems the entire city should be halted tomorrow and not just the school system. Today was proof of that,” he said. Last weekend the Parents' Committee sent a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak demanding to fortify more of Ashkelon's education facilities. “For a number of years now the children of Ashkelon have been serving as hostages in the hands of Hamas' reign of terror,” the letter said in an allusion to kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, held by Hamas in Gaza. ओल्मर्ट की अयोग्यता से अधिक निराशाजनक यह है कि एक माह में होने वाले इजरायल के चुनाव में अभी से उनके समान तीन नेता आमने सामने हैं( विदेश मंत्री ज़िपी लिवनी तथा रक्षा मंत्री एहुद बराक ) जो कि वर्तमान में उनके निकट सहयोगी हैं, शेष दो ( बराक और बिन्यामिन नेतन्याहू ) अपने पूर्ववर्ती प्रधानमंत्री कार्यकाल में बुरी तरह असफल रहे हैं।
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For example, last Saturday the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a front-page story about my appointment in which I am quoted saying: “Conflict without violence is the goal. We have differences with all our allies, but there is no possibility of resorting to force with them, and that is the goal which we all hope for. But that is not where we find ourselves now, as we found in Iraq and Afghanistan. We cannot always rely on nonviolent methods.” Not understanding my argument, the headline writer paraphrased this analysis as “Pipes says Muslim war might be needed.” In fact, it should have been “Pipes says war on militant Islam might be needed.” दो बाद वाले परस्पर वाक्यों को उद्धृत न करना- “ पश्चिमी यूरोप की ओर से मुसलमानों का अभियान एक पीड़ादायक परन्तु संभव चुनौती प्रस्तुत करता है, फिर भी इस बात का कोई कारण नहीं है कि इसे दो सभ्यताओं के मध्य विनाशकारी टकराव की ओर बढ़ने वाला माना जाये। यदि इस मामले को ठीक ढ़ंग से देखा जाये तो आप्रवासी अपने मेजबान समाज में नई ऊर्जा के साथ काफी उपयोगी हो सकते हैं। ” तथ्यों को इस प्रकार तोड़-मरोड़कर ही आलोचक अपना मामला बनाते हैं।
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Sderot house hit by a rocket. (photo by Meital Ohayon) the two Grad rockets that landed in Ashkelon Saturday morning[, Feb. 28,] were new and improved models, capable of greater destruction than those usually fired from Gaza. One of the rockets hit a school in the southern city, and succeeded in penetrating the fortification used to protect it from projectiles. … The Grad rockets that hit Ashkelon were two of only five or six locally manufactured 170 mm rockets ever fired at Israel, experts say. The rarely used rockets have a range of 14 km (8.6 miles) and are capable of massive damage, evident from the destruction witnesses described on the scene of Saturday's attack. अशकेलेन में शनिवार को प्रातः काल जो राकेट गिरे वे नये व सुधरे हुए माडल के थे जो कि सामान्य रूप से गाजा से आने राकेट से अधिक विनाश की क्षमता रखते थे । एक राकेट ने शहर के दक्षिण में एक विद्यालय पर निशाना लगाया और इसकी रक्षा दीवार ध्वस्त करने में सफल रहा ...... विशेषज्ञों के अनुसार जिस श्रेणी का राकेट अशकेलेन पर गिरा वह इजरायल पर गिरे पाँच या छह स्थानीय रूप से निर्मित 170 मिलीमीटर के राकेट में से दो थे। दुर्लभ रूप से प्रयोग किये जाने वाले राकेट 14 किलोमीटर की दूरी वाले हैं जो कि अधिक विनाश की क्षमता रखते हैं जैसा कि शनिवार को हुए विनाश के वर्णन से स्पष्ट है।
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One of the rockets hit a school in the southern city, and succeeded in penetrating the fortification used to protect it from projectiles. Police said Saturday evening that since the end of Israel's offensive in Gaza 63 rockets and mortar shells have hit the battered South, lightly wounding four people and causing 14 to suffer from shock. The Grad rockets that hit Ashkelon were two of only five or six locally manufactured 170 mm rockets ever fired at Israel, experts say. The rarely used rockets have a range of 14 km (8.6 miles) and are capable of massive damage, evident from the destruction witnesses described on the scene of Saturday's attack. Two tractors were required to pull the rocket from the ground in which it had become lodged. Two Qassam rockets were also fired at the Negev Saturday. The first landed in open spaces near a kibbutz in Shaar HaNegev Regional Council, and residents reported that the Color Red alert, set to warn against incoming projectiles, was not sounded in the kibbutz. It was sounded in another town in the area, however. Another Qassam rocket landed in Eshkol Regional Council in the evening. No injuries or damage were reported in either of the attacks. हालाँकि कटु अनुभव इस अवधारणा को अयोग्य ठहराते हैं। एक तो यह कि फतह ने स्वयं को एक दृढ प्रतिज्ञ शत्रु सिद्ध किया है जिसका लक्ष्य यहूदी राज्य को समाप्त करना है। दूसरा, फिलीस्तीनियों ने स्वयं फतह को 2006 के चुनाव में अस्वीकार कर दिया था। क्या इसके बाद भी कोई फतह को “ शांति का भागीदार” मानता है? इसके बजाय जेरूसलम को अन्य स्थितियों के बारे में रचनात्मक रूप से देखना चाहिये , जैसे कि मेरा no-state solution कोई राज्य नहीं समाधान और जार्डन व मिस्र की सरकारों को इसमें लाना।
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One of the rockets hit a school in the southern city, and succeeded in penetrating the fortification used to protect it from projectiles. Police said Saturday evening that since the end of Israel's offensive in Gaza 63 rockets and mortar shells have hit the battered South, lightly wounding four people and causing 14 to suffer from shock. The Grad rockets that hit Ashkelon were two of only five or six locally manufactured 170 mm rockets ever fired at Israel, experts say. The rarely used rockets have a range of 14 km (8.6 miles) and are capable of massive damage, evident from the destruction witnesses described on the scene of Saturday's attack. Two tractors were required to pull the rocket from the ground in which it had become lodged. Two Qassam rockets were also fired at the Negev Saturday. The first landed in open spaces near a kibbutz in Shaar HaNegev Regional Council, and residents reported that the Color Red alert, set to warn against incoming projectiles, was not sounded in the kibbutz. It was sounded in another town in the area, however. Another Qassam rocket landed in Eshkol Regional Council in the evening. No injuries or damage were reported in either of the attacks. हालाँकि कटु अनुभव इस अवधारणा को अयोग्य ठहराते हैं। एक तो यह कि फतह ने स्वयं को एक दृढ प्रतिज्ञ शत्रु सिद्ध किया है जिसका लक्ष्य यहूदी राज्य को समाप्त करना है। दूसरा, फिलीस्तीनियों ने स्वयं फतह को 2006 के चुनाव में अस्वीकार कर दिया था। क्या इसके बाद भी कोई फतह को “ शांति का भागीदार” मानता है? इसके बजाय जेरूसलम को अन्य स्थितियों के बारे में रचनात्मक रूप से देखना चाहिये , जैसे कि मेरा no-state solution कोई राज्य नहीं समाधान और जार्डन व मिस्र की सरकारों को इसमें लाना।
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Bitter experience, however, invalidates this thesis. For one, Fatah has proven itself a determined enemy intent on eliminating the Jewish state. For another, Palestinians themselves repudiated Fatah in 2006 elections. It strains credulity that anyone could still think of Fatah as a “partner for peace.” Rather, Jerusalem should think creatively of other scenarios, perhaps my “ no-state solution ” bringing in the Jordanian and Egyptian governments. More dismaying even than Olmert's ineptitude is that the Israeli election a month from now pits three leaders of his same ilk. Two of them (Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak) currently serve as his main lieutenants, while two (Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu) failed badly in their prior prime ministerial stints. Looking beyond Olmert and his potential successors comes the worst news of all, namely that no one at the upper echelons of Israel's political life articulates the imperative for victory . For this reason, I see Israel as a lost polity, one full of talent, energy, and resolve but lacking direction. Palestinian fire on the Negev continued Saturday, [Feb. 28,] with terrorist groups making use of more advanced weaponry. Experts say the two Grad rockets that landed in Ashkelon Saturday morning were new and improved models, capable of greater destruction than those usually fired from Gaza. अंत में हमास के साथ युद्ध में ओलमर्ट सरकार के किस उद्देश्य को देखा जाये, ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि यह हमास को कमजोर करना चाहती है ताकि फतह को सशक्त किया जा सके और महमूद अब्बास गाजा पर पुनः नियंत्रण स्थापित कर सकें व इजरायल के साथ कूटनीति आरम्भ कर सकें। माइकलबी ओरेन व योसी क्लेन हलेवी ने इस विचार को अभी हाल के अपने लेख में पकडा है जिसका शीर्षक है, “ फिलीस्तीनी इजरायल की विजय चाहते हैं: यदि हमास अपने आतंक के साथ आगे बढता है तो शांति प्रक्रिया समाप्त हो जायेगी”
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Bitter experience, however, invalidates this thesis. For one, Fatah has proven itself a determined enemy intent on eliminating the Jewish state. For another, Palestinians themselves repudiated Fatah in 2006 elections. It strains credulity that anyone could still think of Fatah as a “partner for peace.” Rather, Jerusalem should think creatively of other scenarios, perhaps my “ no-state solution ” bringing in the Jordanian and Egyptian governments. More dismaying even than Olmert's ineptitude is that the Israeli election a month from now pits three leaders of his same ilk. Two of them (Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak) currently serve as his main lieutenants, while two (Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu) failed badly in their prior prime ministerial stints. Looking beyond Olmert and his potential successors comes the worst news of all, namely that no one at the upper echelons of Israel's political life articulates the imperative for victory . For this reason, I see Israel as a lost polity, one full of talent, energy, and resolve but lacking direction. Palestinian fire on the Negev continued Saturday, [Feb. 28,] with terrorist groups making use of more advanced weaponry. Experts say the two Grad rockets that landed in Ashkelon Saturday morning were new and improved models, capable of greater destruction than those usually fired from Gaza. अंत में हमास के साथ युद्ध में ओलमर्ट सरकार के किस उद्देश्य को देखा जाये, ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि यह हमास को कमजोर करना चाहती है ताकि फतह को सशक्त किया जा सके और महमूद अब्बास गाजा पर पुनः नियंत्रण स्थापित कर सकें व इजरायल के साथ कूटनीति आरम्भ कर सकें। माइकलबी ओरेन व योसी क्लेन हलेवी ने इस विचार को अभी हाल के अपने लेख में पकडा है जिसका शीर्षक है, “ फिलीस्तीनी इजरायल की विजय चाहते हैं: यदि हमास अपने आतंक के साथ आगे बढता है तो शांति प्रक्रिया समाप्त हो जायेगी”
