Hamas Leader Suggests Talks LONDON (Agence France-Presse) — The leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, on Monday invited the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to Gaza for unconditional talks on the two factions' divisions.
The philosophical, political and temperamental gulf between the extraordinarily able men who had helped General Washington create the Republic had become apparent even in Washington's lifetime, but his towering personality and his abhorrence of what was then called "faction" -- division into political parties -- had held ambition and contrasting ideas of the state in check.
John Adams got it right: "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction and division of society".
As Disney struggles to integrate Capital Cities/ABC amidst a flood of departing executives, and Time Warner management has been coping with squabbling, faction-ridden divisions, Murdoch, the news junkie, has been free to concentrate on developing the news and entertainment content that is his ultimate product.
As Disney struggles to integrate Capital Cities/ABC amid a flood of departing executives and Time Warner management has been coping with squabbling, faction-ridden divisions, Murdoch, the news junkie, has been free to concentrate on developing the news and entertainment content that is his ultimate product.
Negotiations for the remaining hostages had been suspended because of fighting among Abu Sayyaf factions over the division of the ransom money.
Most European languages have an equivalent: the French balkaniser, the Italian balkanizzare, the German balkanisieren, and the Russian balkanizirovat' — attesting to the special relationship between the Balkan Peninsula and the human tendency toward division and faction.
Most importantly, by no means all members of the Vienna Circle sought to emulate Wittgenstein thus the division between the faction around Schlick and the left wing.
Our data indicated that the SP faction rapidly underwent a symmetric division and generated both SP and non-SP cells, namely the SP enriched population went down by approximately 66%, 58% from SGC-996 and GBC-SD cell lines respectively.
Another mode of political failure arises where the political community is differentiated into factions (perhaps based on a class division between rich and poor) and where one faction can impose its collective will on the state as a whole.
Among the chants, he noted, was one calling for an end to the division between Palestinian factions.
