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...reminder" of the war's consequences. Sharon Resolute MIDDLE EAST Israel's security cabinet approved a compensation package that would give up to $500,000 per family to settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank as part of the planned pullout next year. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a call by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the "disengagement" policy to be put to a referendum, arguing that it was a ploy to delay its implementation...
William D. Rahm is president of the Harvard Chapter of Just Democracy. Ariel Neuman is National Communications Coordinator of Just Democracy...
...exchange programs aimed specifically at the Muslim and Arab world. And yet even positive steps--like the creation of its own Arab-language television and radio networks--have been overshadowed by the inflammatory impact of the invasion of Iraq and the U.S.'s overt backing of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Our policies are objectionable to large parts of the Arab world," says a senior State Department official. "It's very hard to communicate with people when they're shooting the messenger. Our message is often dead on arrival...
...team of Jordanian experts is fixing the problem in the southern wall and will soon move onto the eastern wall. "My job is to keep and preserve, not to destroy and change the site," says Awwad. "I don't have anything to hide." Israeli archaeologists want Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to force the Waqf to let them inside Solomon's Stable. Though he has stepped up restrictions on renovations, Sharon doesn't want to interfere, fearing a Muslim backlash. If the walls do collapse, Israeli officials worry they will be blamed, not the Waqf, which kept them out. That could...
...doing so. French immigration to Israel climbed to 2,083 last year from 1,366 in 1999, according to the Jewish Agency, the Israeli body that handles immigration; it could total 3,000 by the end of this year. The Israeli government is receptive: in July, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set off a diplomatic flap when he called on French Jews to "move to Israel as early as possible," and later welcomed 200 new French immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv to "the only place where you can be safe." Most who make the move blame rising anti...