whitebeard

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

George W. Bush is a product of the Wild West myth. He sees himself as the fast-drawing sheriff who kills the bad guys and maintains order in town.

But in fact he is much more like another stock figure of the Westerns: the top-hatted vendor of the patent medicine which heals everything: tooth-ache and belly-ache, cholera and impotence, gunshot wounds and heart attacks.

Bush's patent medicine is called "democracy".
...So who is worried? Of all people, Ariel Sharon, his great friend, teacher and guide.
...As fate would have it, Bush achieved his great victory one day before the sudden, mysterious breakdown of Yasser Arafat's health. Sharon's alibi was buried in Ramallah.
Cast a glance over Znet.

Gush Shalom was founded in 1993 as a new peace movement, which came into existence because the other Israeli peace movements had decided not to criticise the new Labour government. Gush Shalom is founded on three
principles

Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied territories.
Recognition of the PLO as the Palestinians' representative.
Recognition of the right of Palestinians to establish their own independent state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, alongside Israel.

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