As the fault lines of confrontation spread through the city, they grow more complex, fragmenting campuses and workplaces, straining friendships and dividing families, and even sometimes turning husbands and wives against one other.
Drawing on incentive-based and socialization arguments, we develop a "constructed peer group" hypothesis suggesting that by creating these groups those organizations may actually construct new lines of confrontation over and above the substance-based disagreements existing between countries.
Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov accused Nato members on Tuesday of "trying to turn Ukraine into a front line of confrontation with Russia".
"The biggest mistake the Americans have made is to confront the Iraqis face to face and to be in the front line of confrontation," Mr. Barzani said.
Officially, Syria has been in the front line of confrontation with Israel for 64 years, losing the Golan Heights in 1973, the second of three full-scale wars, and repeatedly clashing with Israel in Lebanon.
Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday the move would only complicate matters and he accused Nato members of "trying to turn Ukraine into a front line of confrontation with Russia", state media reported.
Any expert dealing with the Syrian problem knows that before a cease-fire comes into effect, international observers need to be deployed along the line of confrontation who can impartially record not only the ceasefire itself, but also breaches of the agreement by both sides.
But along the line of confrontation there is no shooting".
Nasrallah has previously indicated that his forces are prepared to extend the line of confrontation with Israel to the Golan Heights, and it is unlikely that Sunday's attack will deter Hezbollah from pursuing this objective.
An additional 275 schools are in the direct line of confrontation.
Among the many puzzling issues in the Middle East conflict (editorial, Oct. 23), perhaps someone can answer this: If, as many of the Palestinian leaders say, the Israelis are murdering Palestinian children, why do Palestinian parents continue to allow their children into the streets, particularly onto the front lines of the confrontation?
