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Tel Aviv suicide bomb kills more than people ■ OUR OPINION Israel and Palestine may have too many enermes of peace to stop the hate, violence Thu fractured terrorist group Hamas tutu brought itself and the Israeli Patna finian peace pm mi one atop cloaer to annihilation with the suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv Monday. Incredibly, outlaw organi zations such as Hamas fail to have enough foresight to see that their murderous activities usually backfire by making the situation they tried to change more intoler ant of change In this mm. Hamas is enraged over the Palestin ian-lsraeli peace accord because it wants no formal, let alone civil, relationship with Israel In fact, llamas, and other militant groups. want nothing less than a Palestinian stain with a capital in Jerusalem in its attempts to achieve its goals. however, Hamas is actually destroying any sup port l»a*e that would give its people, the Palestinians, a natter social and political position in the Holy Land Israeli Prime Minuter Shi mon Peres, the Labor Party and the entire Israeli nation were poised on the brink of finalizing the 3 year old peace agreement With Pates tinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat and hit peo ple Now, there are no guar antees for peace Although most of the blood lately has been shed by Hamas. Israel has its own factious nf intolerance for a peaceful coexistence with Palestine. Yitzak Rabin's assassin told the world that himself. Members start jumping OCA’s off-course ship ■ OUR OPINION: A dwindling membership proves Oregonians dislike hale molrvated injustice The Oregon Otiwu Alliance. Inal ultra-right wmg Hounding board of intolerance and injustice, has lost a huge chunk of its membership base during the jmat six years and i* current ly struggling to get enough signatures to put its latest anti-gay right* Initiative mi the November ballot The obvious lesson is that haie can only he peddled for so long before it starts to really stink up the place and turn people away Even conservative (Chris tian* who once supported the OCA an; publicly denouncing the organization and pulling a* much dis tance lietweeti themselves and the embattled aIItame as they can {XIA founder tea Mahan admits his organization's latest anti-gay right* effort is not as strong as the 1992 and 1994 initiatives, having gathered unly 10,000 tigna turns so far What a thrill it would be if we could have an OCA free elm tion this November Instead of defending bask human rights against indr fensible ignorance, the citi zens of (his state could actu ally turn their attention toward the issue* that are important to Oregon's future. 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A**' XVf^ Wjuf1If Terror and trembling: The end is near HumauMM. tsunami*, monsoon* — there u an emblem of catastrophe for every pan of the world Because folks aren't too fond of going through three disaster*, much attention i* given to those who can predict them accurately In California, Mother Nature's gift of calamity is the earthquake Want to find the state s Sale mic Sooffa—yerf See Jttn Ber k land |im is a feisty old soul who claims to know when the big one is coming Be forewarned that the investigative method* of the M visar old geologin are a ted bit unorthodox Oh sure, Jim does the normal scientific stuff like looking at moons and measuring tidal fluctuations But to predict when the next terrible trembler will occur, Jim firmly believe* in the power of the canine Yes. dogs has h day Jim curl* up with hi* newspaper and meticulously reads the hat-dog report When too many rover* have gone on the loo**. Jim say* an "earthquake window" has opened Jim believe* that dog* can sense seismic dls lurbancas The impending doom of an earth quake nigger* something inside them They become agitated and antsy whenever a trem Wing change is about to mint Well. Jim isn't respected much bv the scientif ic i ommumtv In is. 1. he was so ridiculed by the l S. Geologicel Sim ey that he had to quit hi* job and accept the role of renegade "It s a shame that high science ignores all these clues.*' Betkland said as he unveiled hi* latest batch of seismic forecast*. "(They) My you can't predict them That's hogwash " And believe it or not. our prophet is usually fight Having correctly predicted tile iwh Nurthmlge quake and the 1«»» Lorn* Prieta trembler. Jim is far more reliable than the expert* who mock him Unemployed, he now works out of his San Jose home If only the wayward oracle amid find his wav to our University lie would learn that a gradu ation window" has opened in Eugene, and evorv anxious senior walking down 13th Avenue shows the signs. Uke Berkland's panicked pooches, there it a sense of impending doom in their eyes. The grwduatm-to-he are consumed by an uncertain future Restless and annoyed, they howl at night, disturbed by thoughts of what June will bring My friends and I have not been immune to these anxious time* While each of us responds to the pressure of graduation differently, our collective angst remain* constant. There is the friend who obsessively applies hu as many jobs as he can. j< Penny’s. Mac v s, Nike — he cannot become a citizen of (Corporate America fast enough. He plans to start working throe days after graduation. Then there's the one who says he's “gotta start looking" but never does, And then there's I who hates even thinking alamt what the future krill bdd. Kvery visit to the (street Center and rewrite of the resume brings me closer to a decision l‘d prefer having another four years to make There is e growing tension between *11 of us We get on each other's nerve* and won der why this year has been «o damn different than the rest We get reflective and reminiace about the "carefree" days of our first few years in Eugene Da vs when thoughts about employment were a* common as day* of sobriety Days when finals meant Scantron, and studying meant footnotes And we seem haunted by the mystery that awaits us We think about terms like “glory days." and wonder if these were they. We visit our parents' borne and see a world of remote controls and l-oryboyt, and wonder if a personal devolution is at hand Will pint* of dark micro-brew* fade to cant of (ktors light? Will life giving friendships turn to distant phone (alls? Will passionate love some day become routine monotony? I mailt* that these thoughts are baaed in melodramatic fantasy In my heart I know the days of tomorrow will possess the same vari ant e as the days of today, they will be a tumult of victories and defeats, highs and lows. Today 1 participate in the innately human tendency to roman Hare the past and demonise the present We forget about the pains of yester day and ignore ihe joys of tomorrow We are tike Jim BerkUnd s puppies We strug gle with this tune uf seismic flu* We scratch, and we daw, knowing that something big is about to occur. We are like Berkland himself, being thrust into a world of many doubler* and few support ers Every moment brings us one step closer to the day of reckoning A (lay when we will step into the abyss and face the change alone XMth Ckinningham. a senior maturing m English, is a columnist for the Emerald E mail ksithdhorsgon uomgon *du
