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Here’s the scariest long-term thing you’re likely to read about Hamas:
“When I interviewed over 100 Hamas activists and all leadership, I was quite astonished because everyone told me that an Islamic state would begin about the years 2022 or 2023,” he said. “I asked them, `What are the conditions?’ They said: `Life after Yasir Arafat. Islamic revolution in Jordan and Egypt. Time and demography are on our side.’ “
A quite well-reviewed novel called “The Bug” about “the postmodern Prometheus”:
Ethan’s sections of the novel are preceded, Hollywood-style, by the number of days that UI-1017 has been ”open” — it lives for 372 days in all — and his condition deteriorates as the Jester carries him further into the mystery of its birth, the ”deep down strangeness that made this machine seem to be operating in its own terms, alive.” As Ethan’s obsession with the bug grows and the company begins to crumble around his workstation, Berta is compelled by circumstances (and innate curiosity) to become his protector and shadow….
