The Beijing Olympic Games get under way Friday amid high hopes among Chinese authorities to keep the largest amount of gold in China. The Chinese authorities, however, are just as determined to ensure that the 29th Olympiad unfolds without any major security breach.
AMMAN – Pakistans coalition government says it will launch proceedings to impeach the highly unpopular president, Pervez Musharraf, on mismanagement charges; but the former general will not leave without a fight that could drag the nuclear-armed country into new realms of uncertainty.
EDITORIAL
One of the first puzzles that new students of philosophy at Oxford University were posed by their tutors was to say what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? The answer, of course, is that the words are wrong. The definitions make no sense. If something is irresistible, then it can move any object. If something is immoveable, then the force can be resisted. But there appears to be a growing prospect of such a contradictory experiment being carried out over the skies of the Middle East in the five dangerous months that remain of the U.S. administration of George W. Bush.
OPINION
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Palestinian journalists and writers seem to have found it difficult to address the current trend of bulldozer attacks in Israel. The piece of construction equipment appears to have joined our national conflict as a new weapon in the hands of Palestinians working inside Israel.
TEL AVIV, Israel – Sharon Ben Aryeh wants people in the Middle East to be seen getting along together – literally. Ben Aryeh is the brains and driving force behind the Other Voices peripatetic documentary film festival, which did the rounds of Israel in June. The event featured screenings in Jerusalem, Sderot, Lod and the Arab town of Kfar Kara in the Galilee, and was supported by the Norwegian foreign ministry.
