Epstein Secrets

uld continue to support it. SPIEGEL: That could change quickly if Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and Abbas's rival Fatah movement, which governs in the West Bank, were to form a joint government. Do you believe their reconciliation will work? Nusseibeh: It is only na

hunger strikers died before the end of 1981; and their cases drew worldwide attention to the plight of Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. Just as Margaret Thatcher, then the British prime minister, unsympathetically dismissed Mr. Sands as a "convicted criminal," Israeli officials have accused Mr. Adnan of bein

1_02209227 EFTA02723341 SPIEGEL: That could change quickly if Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and Abbas's rival Fatah movement, which governs in the West Bank, were to form a joint government. Do you believe their reconciliation will work? Nusseibeh: It is only na

unger strikers died before the end of 1981; and their cases drew worldwide attention to the plight of Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. Just as Margaret Thatcher, then the British prime minister, unsympathetically dismissed Mr. Sands as a "convicted criminal," Israeli officials have accused Mr. Adnan of bein

s to Assad's concerns on both the Lebanese and Palestinian fronts. When in late 1979, radical factions in Iran endeavored, in coordination with al- Fatah, to dispatch volunteer corps to Southern Lebanon, Syrians thwarted the initiative. From the perspective of President Assad, the translation of an e

U.K. fought their war over the Falklands, little was at stake save national pride, the stature of the country's respective leaders (Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher vs. an unpopular military junta) and a few sparsely populated islands. Since then, the stakes [29] have risen immeasurably as a result of recent s

punishing Gaza and isolating its Hamas government, Egypt is reported to be pushing for a reconciliation of the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. If successful, this could help defuse the current dangerous escalation of violence between Israel on the one side and Hamas and still more extreme G

West - mainly the Anglo-American part of it - had recovered some of its pride and nerve under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. And there was the growing evidence of post-colonial regimes' failure, violence and corruption, especially in Africa. But the decisive event for the