Word: abu
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: With the peace process virtually frozen, Palestinian leaders are turning to increasingly violent measures. Palestinian Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein announced that the death penalty established last month for Palestinians who sell land to Jews would also be applied to Arabs with Israeli citizenship. "The Palestinian justice system will apply to them, no matter where they are," said Medein, "and they will be bought to justice in one way or another." TIME's Jamil Hamad reports that the new edict may be behind the recent unsolved murders of two Palestinian land dealers. Hamad says the new Palestinian...
...Homa or Jabal Abu Ghneim? Two weeks ago, the empty hillside on the southern reaches of Jerusalem was just an obscure plot with a Hebrew name and an Arabic one. But as big yellow bulldozers began to claim the hill for Jewish houses, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was converting the landscape into a perilous flash point. Palestinians hurled stones, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, Arab leaders issued harsh denunciations, and every single friend of Israel's disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide...
Levitin maintains that land in Jabal Abu Ghaneim (Har Homa's local, Arab name) has been allocated according to the Arab/Jewish population ratio in Jerusalem. He scoffs at notions of an attempt to "Judaize" (Levitin's term) the city. This is to ignore the fact that the current population ratio in Jerusalem is itself the result of a campaign of ethnically selective development, of which Jabal Abu Ghaneim is merely one of the latest fronts...
Underpinning Levitin's piece is the extraordinary notion that the U.S. has turned on Israel. The mild concern Clinton expressed about Jabal Abu Ghaneim was belied by the U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution censuring Israel. U.S. support is as strong as ever. There is no mention of the billions of dollars in aid (more than five billion annually since the late 1980s) that fashion Israel into a regional superpower waning either...
...sharp increase in Medigap insurance premiums are a threatening prospect for many Americans," said Families USA executive director Ron Pollack. "When premiums increase 20, 30 and 40 percent in one year, may of our nation's elderly are going to be squeezed out of the Medigap market." --Lamia Abu-Haidar...