FROM THEIR TENTS outside a service station, evacuees from the former Jewish settlement of Elei Sinai in Gaza watch in dismay as Israeli troops reenter territory that was once home.

“Kill him, dammit, that’s your entire order. Get him over there, shoot him.”   Fatima Bazorkina was watching the evening news when she heard a Russian general give this order. The general was ordering the execution of a young man just detained by the Russian forces.

La patru zile de la propunerea de retragere a trupelor româneÅŸti din Irak, preÅŸedintele Traian Băsescu reia tirul îndreptat asupra liberalilor. Joi seara, ÅŸeful statului cataloga iniÅ£iativa, la postul public, drept un atentat grosolan la interesul naÅ£ional. Luni, la Radio România Actualităţi, preÅŸedintele a continuat mai dur. A fost de …