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...among the city's conservatives. Then, last year, an ultra-Orthodox youth waded into the crowd of revelers and slashed three people with a knife. The furor over the parade reveals a long-standing contradiction inside an Israeli culture where secular values compete with fiercely defended religious traditions. Tel Aviv prides itself on its hip, cosmopolitan nightclubs and an easygoing "life is a beach" attitude, while an hour away, in some Jerusalem neighborhoods, ultra-orthodox men still dress in the style of 17th century Poland, with long black waistcoats and beaver-skin hats. Making up one third of the Jewish...
...Palestinians ask: Who in the Bush Administration is in charge of Palestinian affairs? Is it the U.S. ambassador in Tel-Aviv? Or perhaps the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem? Some say the State Department handles Palestinian affairs out of Washington. Perhaps it is David Welsh, the State Department envoy and a frequent visitor to the region. Others, of a conspiratorial bent, say it's done by the CIA, the U.S. military attache in Tel-Aviv or by General Dayton, the security coordinator between Palestinians and Israelis. For Palestinians, this absence of a clearly identified U.S. authority is bewildering. Palestinian officials...
...With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv...
Susan E. Maya ’08 was studying in Haifa when it was first bombed, and left to stay with relatives in a Tel Aviv suburb...
...event of an Israeli attack, Iran would surely retaliate, perhaps striking Israel with the conventionally armed missiles currently in its arsenal or goading Hizballah to unleash another round of terror attacks. Arab reaction to an Israeli air strike would also be grave for both Tel Aviv and Washington. "Even if the Israelis didn't get a yellow light from the U.S. and they decided they had to strike on their own, it would be viewed among all major Arab capitals as at least supported by the United States," Jones says. A Sept. 11 report on military options by the Washington...