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...Oren calls him "a product of the moment" who has cannily seized on the leadership vacuum and is "covering all his bases." His natural constituency is the more than one million Russians in Israel, but he's also reaching out to the Arab community and the Israeli mainstream. He throws extravagant parties for the members of Israel's high society and also builds low-income housing for recent immigrants. He bought an Israeli soccer team, Beitar, whose fans are mainly working-class Likud supporters known to chant "death to the Arabs" from the stands. He also owns a basketball team...
...added that the Arab League, which she cited as part of the anti-Israel lobby, was founded to oppose Israel’s creation and has since focused on anti-Israel activities...
...realized that I was no relation of hers. That evening came a piece of almost poetic gibberish: “FW: Harof Layla wabble!” Harof Layla wabble?” How delightful—something a baby might gurgle, I thought, before recognizing the language as Arabic. Did the muffin walk? Eat? Cry? Such intrigue, such absurdity. Since then, I’ve received up to five texts a day from Ali. I know his email server, but not his address. I cannot respond. I don’t know why the texts arrive mostly in English...
Cracks are beginning to appear in the ranks of Darfur's feared Janjaweed militia - at least that's according to leaders of the rebel forces fighting against the government-backed Arab supremacists that have rained terror on the region's ethnic African villages. Leaders of Darfur's rebel groups based in eastern Chad tell TIME that they believe several Janjaweed leaders are now close to joining the rebels. Their defection would be spurred by fear that the Sudan government may betray Janjaweed commanders to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they would face war crimes charges...
...Janjaweed are part of Darfur," declares Tajeldeen Bashir Niam, general secretary of the Justice and Equality Movement (J.E.M.) - one of Darfur's two main resistance movements. "They have approached us to join us and that's what we're working for: to be united, Arab and African, for the people of Darfur. The Janjaweed are realizing the only solution to Darfur 's problems is to resist the government...