a July 8, 2007 NYT article by Roger Cohen about Tzipi Livni, Israeli foreign minister, first read in the IHT. contains some good incerpts on Israel/Palestine politics.

« There were three ideological goals (…): Greater Israel, a Jewish state and democracy, says Arye Naor, (…) you could have any two of them, but adding a third condemned the enterprise. »

« One odd thing about the Middle Eastern impasse is that a clear majority of people on both sides agree more or less on the outcome: two states, Israel and Palestine, divided along the 1967 borders adjusted to conform with agreed territorial swaps; an inventive deal on Jerusalem allowing both sides their measure of the sacred; massive compensation for Palestinian refugees not wishing to return to nascent Palestine; and perhaps a stabilizing role for a third-party force »

[edit 0707241130] The NYT article is longer than the IHT one. However, it is only the parts outlining the character of Ms Livni who have been edited. The arguments around the Palestine/Israel standoff (in the light of the recent Hamas coup in Gaza strip) are valid in both editions. I wonder why IHT states premium content for this article freely available on NYT’s ? (NYT is the parent company for IHT, which is targeted at expats and edited in Paris, France)
[edit 0707241546] The IHT article is free to read online, and is not premium content. Just a bit difficult to find (a hiccup btw NYT and IHT databases…)
[edit 0707241609] Guardian Dilip Hiro also noted Arye Naor’s comment (reproduced above)

As Bruce Schneier points out, the kind of person who downloads a series of photos of the pages of a giant novel is also the kind of person who’ll line up and buy a copy the night it comes out.[x]

Naming the source for the quotes is Old Media-style attribution, on the Web we should give link-back to the original blog (New Media-style attribution) [x]

…the easiest way to circumvent national rules at the moment is to invest in a Wifi radio, which is still pricey, costing about 220 euros… [x]