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The old culture, however precarious, still exists, and Dene leaders, always pragmatic, fought to protect it with a proper land settlement rather than dependence on pipeline revenues in a world where oil and gas prices are just as fragile as fur prices once were.
Among the early story lines : The rioters were sending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a message that he must negotiate or pay a price; relations between the Israeli army and Palestinian police--who fought alongside the rioters--have collapsed; Netanyahu was not a decisive ideologue but a aimless dawdler; concessions to the Palestinians, said the Likud government, would signal weakness and invite further attacks; and the conflagration placed Egypt in a precarious position as it tried to facilitate reconciliation amid Arab rage over Israel's actions.
Athens changed hands more than once during the long struggle in which many English, Scots, Irish, and French fought alongside the Greeks.
See Jere Longman, Among the Heroes-United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back (Harper- Collins, 2002), p.
The existence of surf beaches within the environs of Sydney--at Bondi, Bronte, Coogee, and Tamarama in the south and Manly to the north--meant that the battle of the beaches was fought in Sydney, and, when respectability was obtained, that it was in the terms of an activity very much associated with Sydney, surf-life-saving.