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.

An American dialogue with Iran will be a serious blow to the interests of Israeli hardliners, and some of them dream of making it impossible.

Hardliners, who refused to give up their monopoly on power, won.

It is unlikely that Hamas will form a government composed of hardliners.

In this context, there is widespread rejection of the fundamentalists use of the term.

The problem is that the conservative hardliners continue to use it politically.

Hundreds of thousands went into the streets to confront the hardline coup against Mikhail Gorbachev s perestroika.

News confirming that the city is hours away from falling completely under the control of the armed militants.

It charges the Palestinian Authority with not taking serious action against violence and militants.

Meanwhile, Israel continues to demand the right to protect its civilians from attacks by Palestinian militants.

But the Orthodox fundamentalists found the art blasphemous and offensive, and some trashed the exhibition.

Egregious abuse of power by conservative hardliners is not newsworthy to them.

Syria has banned the face covering Islamic veil from the country's universities ... Last January, an Egyptian court upheld a ban of the veil during university exams. And last year Al Azhar University's religious head banned the veil at all Al Azhar schools altogether.

Some of the film's critics think its success is influenced by the French government's war on religious extremism.

Of course, hardline supporters of free markets will say that we should.

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

Is freedom of beliefs going flourish after the revolutions in the Arab World, or will some extremists impose intolerance and sectarianism?

They also know who the enemy is and can play a role in isolating militants from local people.

And only hard core idealists dismiss altogether the mounting risk of the eurozone s total disintegration.

The Islamist Ennahda party leads the government, but it faces a serious challenge from the ultra conservative Salafists of Hizb Ut Tahrir.

They can point to the violent, anti Zionist, and, yes, anti Semitic rhetoric of radical Islamists, and argue that no deal with the Palestinians is possible.

Hardline critics are particularly displeased with scenes showing the turbulent events after the 2009 presidential elections in a positive light.

But the friendly gesture was sullied by overly zealous mainland Chinese Web users who were eager to defend their country against separatists .

Partially in response to such incidents, Palestinian militants as well as unarmed Palestinians, among them teenagers, were killed by Israeli troops and security forces.

Few came with any deep understanding of the dynamics of the political conflict between militant Tamils and the Sri Lankan state.

The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.

Even die hard cynics were won over by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao s emotional comforting of the survivors.

Indeed, Prince Naif, the Minister of the Interior and leader of the hardliners, has either silenced or imprisoned hundreds of the key Saudi reformers.

Hardline Islamists, favored previously, are now out, and soldiers charged with mutiny have received the death penalty.

The programme to unify the city of Mostar made significant progress, despite the complexity of the project and the continued obstruction by hardliners on both sides.

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.

The return of hardliners after the ascendancy of moderates is a little understood but fairly typical feature of twentieth century revolutions.

Watching television, Zaid Benjamin is surprised to see Iraq TV is playing a song while it's second largest city was falling into militants control

Unification of the city of Mostar has proceeded relatively well, given the complexity of the process and the efforts of some hardliners to block progress.

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

Of course, diehard anti Americans will never be persuaded, but they remain a minority, with the possible exception of the Muslim world.

In this context, Sharon gained two landslide election victories as a hardliner, but implemented a moderate policy, including a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

It is now mainstream a fitting subject for even die hard realists to consider and no longer a cause promoted by peace groups alone.

Then there is the great unspoken factor of racial prejudice, something even hard core right wing Republicans try not to express openly.

It has been nine days since a Palestinian militant slipped into the city of Netanya, blew himself up, together with five Israelis, and scarred 30 others for the rest of their lives.

We commend President Mahmoud Abbas for asserting his authority by ordering Palestinian security forces to prevent militants from launching further rocket and mortar attacks against Israel.

He understood that much of the dangerous tension stemmed from each side s hardliners, who acted as if peace were impossible.

In the late 1980 s, Pakistan backed an insurrection by some Kashmiri Muslims and supplied arms, training, and funds to militants who infiltrated across the LoC.

And, because the US has no presence on the ground in any capacity, Americans are seen as the aggressors, and the militants are seen as the protectors.

A senior police commissioner is currently languishing in jail for allegedly collaborating with far left militants he spent his entire career hunting down.