Word: ariel
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...also seized three houses in the PA-controlled village of Beit Jallah to counter gunfire on an adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last Friday, following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people in Jerusalem, Israel had seized control of Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday that these actions were the price of Yasser Arafat's failure to rein in suicide bombers. The Palestinians greeted them as a declaration of war. And the United States urged restraint on both sides...
...latest outrage broke, Palestinian security officials began hurriedly evacuating their premises, knowing that a fearsome Israeli retaliation is all but inevitable. The last vestiges of the cease-fire brokered by CIA chief George Tenet will probably have been laid to rest by dawn on Friday. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has no good options for moving forward...
Vanzant's books promote an unabashed, if cafeteria-style, spirituality: her New York Times No. 1 In the Meantime asks readers to ascend to the "attic" of their souls, "where the Christ lives...where Buddha lives...where Krishna, Muktananda and the archangels Michael, Ariel, Uriel and Gabriel live." She runs the Inner Visions Institute, an organization based in Silver Spring, Md., that sponsors events like the "Wonder Woman Weekend...centered on the One Mind, One Spirit, One Life of the Creator" ($800 for the weekend, not counting lodging). Call it religion or, as Vanzant prefers, "faith," too much could...
...Israel, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and George W. Bush are reluctant companions in a drifting rowboat that's picking up speed. But while the alarming acceleration of the cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence endangers the political interests of all three, they appear unable to stop the drift back into the vortex...
...atrocity at a Tel Aviv disco two months ago has won important international gains. But it has not solved the basic crisis presented by the intifada - Israelis, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza, have still been dying every week, and that creates tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was elected on promises of restoring Israel's security, and even in his own cabinet calls are growing to deal a decisive blow to Arafat's Palestinian Authority...