Unlike the hard line secularists, the militants, whose best known leader is Marwan Barghuti, the head of the Tanzim grassroots grouping in Fatah, are willing to work with the Islamists.

Without such an agreement, and if the new leadership cracks down hard on the Islamists, a violent civil war could erupt.

For hard line Communists, he was a hero three times over historical, patriotic, and world class.

In addition, they may still be in contact with the hard line elements in their militias.

The same goes for earlier hard line rhetoric about rooting out the militants and destroying their organization.

Until now, the president has toed a hard line on Iraq, on Lebanon, and in domestic affairs.

Instead, they clung to hard line positions, leaving Mubarak unable to find a solution to the impasse.

However, the military continued to remain a red line that is hard to cross by the media.

Engaging the Islamists

Rise of Islamists

The Maghreb s Modern Islamists

Where are the Islamists?

At the same time, as was seen in Yasir Arafat s Palestine Authority, a corrupt regime encourages people to turn to radical Islamists, who work hard to present themselves as honest.

KATMANDU Confounding everyone except themselves, Nepal s hard line Maoists have taken a commanding role following the country s landmark elections.

This paranoid Islam, represented by hard line outfits like the Tablighi Jamaat, is Pakistan s fastest growing brand of faith.

Suddenly, the Republican Party, long identified with a hard line on immigration, started talking about the need for comprehensive reform.

Inevitably, Wahhabi Islamists did best.

The Islamists' point of view

His hard line approach isolated Japan and angered China, leading to an outburst of anti Japanese demonstrations in China in 2005.

Thus, Obama must focus as much on pushing back against domestic hardliners as on taking a hard line with Iranian negotiators.

Under Khamenei s leadership, an unholy trinity of nouveau riche Revolutionary Guardsmen, hard line clergymen, and indoctrinated Basij militiamen increasingly wield power.

A transcript of his comments and sections of the video tape wound up on a hard line, pro regime website, baztab.com.

They are also putting on the line their political independence and the hard won credibility needed to influence private sector behavior.

Furthermore, Lee s hard line approach to North Korea very different from that of his predecessors has resulted in a popular backlash.

Worryingly, this might also happen if the FARC splits, with one part deciding to negotiate while hard line military commanders fight on.

Furthermore, Netanyahu s unsentimental assessment of the Middle East does not line up with that of the Obama administration in thrall to its collapsing romance with moderate Islamists and its devoted supporters among Jewish Americans.

Islamists protest in Bangladesh over 'blasphemous blogs'.

The common man, rooted in the real world, supposedly knows better uncompromising toughness, the hard line, is the only way to get results.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is less extreme, but its leadership is weak, doesn t control Gaza, and is still full of hard line elements.

The third difficulty concerns the fact that, on both sides, most religious authorities, rabbis and imams alike, have maintained a hard line stance.

Israel s two most irreconcilable enemies, Iran and Syria, are in fact among the most vocal supporters of Turkey s hard line stance towards the Kurds.

In fact, social democrats were regarded as more dangerous than hard line conservatives, because their moderate left wing talk only served to postpone the revolution.

If other democracies boast Right, Center and Left, we have Jewish and Arab parties, secular and religious, peacenik and hard line, socialist and free market.

The new Proud of the Netherlands Movement, led by Rita Verdonk, the former Minister of Integration, promotes a somewhat more respectable version of this hard line.

Although everyone knows that postponing hard decisions only makes the problem larger, they could still believe that there would always be a firm line of defense.

Following Ethiopia s intervention, the Islamists found themselves out of power.

For the Islamists, all Shias deserve death anyway, as apostates.

This has provoked Islamists who reported your Facebook page Debatunisie.

Today, it is an accepted fact that the kindest thing you can say about the Bush administration is that it is completely incompetent, which is the line now taken by hard line Bush supporters like the National Review and the commentator Robert Novak.

In fact, while Saudi Arabia opposes elected Islamists in Egypt, it supports insurgent Islamists in Syria, owing entirely to Iran s support for Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime.

Work hard, play hard.

Besieged by Communists or Islamists, people feel a sense of belonging.

Military coup makers and Islamists felt encouraged to contest the regime.

Because the blue line is a better line. The red line is way downhill, the blue line is a good line.

The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.