ARABS-ISRAEL - Aug. 4 - Annan Urges To Stop Cycle Of Violence.In New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of headquarters, UN Sec-Gen. Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. calls on the two sides to stop the cycle of attacks and retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and , saying it fed "anger and hatred". He says Palestinian militants resort to "indiscriminate terror" while Israeli retaliation is "equally devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. in its effects on ordinary people. Does it need saying, yet again, that these attacks on civilians are immoral and illegal, as well as politically counter-productive?" (At least 1,481 Palestinians and 585 Israelis have been killed since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation began in late-Sept. 2000 after peace talks froze). |
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