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Israel is facing a power struggle of its own. Sharon won Knesset approval for his Gaza withdrawal plan with the support of left-wing and Arab parties. But his right-wing bloc split. The crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism...
News of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s rapidly deteriorating medical condition elicited a broad spectrum of emotional reactions on a campus still bitterly divided by the Arab-Israeli conflict, with some members of the Harvard community preparing to grieve and others jubilant...
...invasion of Iraq to domestic violence. And by the “dogma of increasing authoritarianism” he means a mindset that has allowed the United States to, according to West, violate the rights of prisoners of war captured abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan and to racially profile Arab-Americans at home...
Since February 2003, Sudanese bombers and government-backed Arab militiamen have coordinated attacks on black Muslim villages in the region, leaving more than 50,000 dead and forcing over 1.6 million Darfurians to flee from their homes...
...want to die like Bigley," she said tearfully in a video released Friday, referring to British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his captors earlier this month. Her heartrending plea may not help her abductors' cause with many Iraqis. "To humiliate a woman like this, especially an Arab woman, is unacceptable," says Saad al-Nasseri, a Baghdad businessman. "Whoever has her will get no sympathy from Iraqi people...