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"I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." Yasser Arafat's tenor voice was urgent and his fluid arms moved to match his Arabic imagery last week as the leader of the Palestine...
The Palestinians, Poet Mahmoud Darweesh once wrote, are a people who have "no homeland, no flag and no address." But they do have a strong sense of nationhood. Even children who have never been there talk vividly about life in the Old City of Jerusalem or the beauty of Mount...
The settlement is dying economically as well as literally. "Fukhar" means pottery in Arabic; there used to be 70 kilns in the village, employing 500 people. Now there are only two. Farmers are afraid to work their fields for fear they will step on an Israeli antipersonnel mine. At night...
By almost any standard there was something suspicious about Ilarion Capucci. Driving his black Mercedes-Benz, he crossed from Israel into Jordan and Lebanon at least 50 times in the past year. Last April he claimed that more than $750,000 in cash was stolen from his Jerusalem residence. When...
Although Lebanese Defense Minister Nasri Maalouf quickly called for the strengthening of his country's armed forces, the raid was considered in Beirut to be not much more than a psy-war gesture. Leaflets scattered by the frogmen admonished Lebanese fishermen against assisting Palestinian guerrillas in launching other seaborne...