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.

BULLDOZERS DEMOLISHED HIS HOUSE. Few images silenced the critics of our war on Slobodan Milosevics Yugoslavia as well as those of the Kosovan refugees fleeing their villages. Their faces expressed the shock at the horrors they had witnessed.

Deir Yassin a casualty of guns and propaganda Paul Holmes JERUSALEM .To the Orthodox Jews, who populate the suburb of Kefar Shaul, the site is just that.