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...Sepulcher lock themselves into their ancient warren, shutting out the iniquitous world beyond their walls. Lately, though, they've concluded the biggest threat lies within - Patriarch Eirinaios I, who's at the center of a labyrinthine religious and legal scandal involving the alleged lease of Church properties in an Arab area of the Old City to Jewish investors. Eirinaios' opponents within the Greek Orthodox Church accuse him of shady financial dealings, while his Palestinian flock complains that the leases give Israel a politically charged foothold in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem. The scandal has divided the Church - which owns some...
...files, according to the government report. And no one is even sure that a lease was actually given. "There is no new lease on any of the Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square properties," says one Patriarchate official. Israeli property deals in Palestinian neighborhoods are often kept secret to avoid Arab protests and retribution against locals who sell to Jews. Nevertheless, Palestinian Orthodox Christians have seized on the scandal to push for greater representation in the Patriarchate's hierarchy. There are some 120,000 Greek Orthodox Palestinians, the largest Christian group in the Holy Land, but only...
...bulk of the insurgency, however, draws its momentum not from Osama bin Laden's global jihad against America, but from the alienation and hostility toward the new Iraqi order and its U.S. sponsor pervasive in Iraq's once-dominant Sunni Arab minority. It is now conventional wisdom among U.S. officials that the key to defeating the insurgency is giving the Sunnis a greater political stake in the new order. There were positive indicators in that respect last weekend, when some 1,000 Sunni leaders gathered to coordinate their activities in search of a greater political role, particularly in the writing...
...wife and son of Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of two leaders of the state religious establishment; with abducting the Rabbi's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend; in Jerusalem. Meir has admitted to kidnapping the teenager at knifepoint and holding him overnight in an Arab village and later at the Rabbi's home, where he was allegedly beaten. But police suspect that it was done at the behest of his mother?something the family denies?who allegedly disapproved of the relationship. The Rabbi has not been implicated in the attack...
Khanfar says al-Jazeera will be adopting "a new style, a new outlook, a new philosophy of reporting news" in response to the needs of Arab society. The channel's news bulletins and tumultuous talk shows will put fresh emphasis on domestic Arab issues like democracy and human rights. Programming, including new segments on Arab culture, social taboos, youth topics, tourism and investigative journalism, will seek to replace "slogans," "political rhetoric" and "dreamy wishful thinking" with "reality" and "solid solutions," Khanfar says. "We need to upgrade ourselves from magnificent speeches to rational, in-depth analysis of what is going...