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s plausible. The Pakistani-Indian conflict may be such a situation. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal may have enabled it to engage in riskier behavior in Kashmir than it otherwise would attempt, because nuclear weapons help to deter Pakistan's ultimate nightmare: an assault by the militarily superior India,
oint out that a profoundly anti-democratic, even racist, political culture has become endemic among much of the Jewish EFTA00630432 population in the West Bank, and jeopardizes Israel proper. The explosion of settlements, encouraged and subsidized by both Labor and Likud governments, has led to a large and
e Himalayas and overwhelmed India's unprepared and ill-equipped defenses, scattering its soldiers. Within days, the Chinese had wrested control of Kashmir's Aksai Chin plateau in the west and, in the east, neared India's vital tea-growing heartlands in Assam. Then, on Nov. 21, Beijing called a unilate
, including three roads, a hospital and a new town that will bring thousands of jobs to the impoverished territory. Hamas' Palestinian opponents in the West Bank were watching the emir's plans with some concern. They fear that any gestures that strengthen Hamas' hold on Gaza will make the Islamists less incl
al Asia. China similarly worries that upheaval in Afghanistan could exacerbate Islamic extremism in Xinjiang; India thinks the same could happen in Kashmir. And Shiite Iran almost went to war with the Taliban, an extremist Sunni movement, in 1997; its leaders do not want a repeat of that crisis. Iran i
lem for Israel is achieving peace with the more than 5 million Palestinian refugees spread across refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli politicians are well aware that any concessions granted to the Palestinian negotiating delegation will not necessarily persuade the Palest
y nr PKK whirh Page 17241 EFTA00046752 has fought a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish government." -- India loosened its clampdown on Kashmir, but the region's leaders remain detained. Joanna Slater and Niha Masih report: "Residents of Srinagar, the Kashmiri capital, confirmed that the a
aib, speaking at times through tears, took a more personal approach, expressing remorse about not being able to visit her grandmother who lives in the West Bank. After Israel blocked their official visit, Tlaib (D-Mich.), a Palestinian American, made an appeal to Israel officials to allow her to visit her r
t Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has fought a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish government." -- India loosened its clampdown on Kashmir, but the region's leaders remain detained. Joanna Slater and Niha Masih report: "Residents of Srinagar, the Kashmiri capital, confirmed that the a
laib, speaking at times through tears, took a more personal approach, expressing remorse about not being able to visit her grandmother who lives in the West Bank. After Israel blocked their official visit, Tlaib (D-Mich.), a Palestinian American, made an appeal to Israel officials to allow her to visit her r
ore to come. The global jihad has had more success in Pakistan where it has fomented unprecedented terror and violence from Karachi to Indian- held Kashmir, murdered Benazir Bhutto and created the Pakistani Taliban as a new arm of Al-Qaeda. America now carries out routine bombing strikes in northwest P
eated efforts to "Judaize" the region, and in the so-called mixed towns within the Green Line. EFTA00584918 8 The popular struggle committees in the West Bank have had some success in stopping Israel's encroachments on their villages. Unfortunately, the UN bid has diverted attention from these civil resi
Entities connected to both Kashmir and the West Bank

Barack Obama
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Jerusalem
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Middle East
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Jeffrey Epstein
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West Bank
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Cairo
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Fatah
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Marc Rich
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Hosni Mubarak
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Vladimir Putin
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Damascus
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