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Covered by a rug and preceded by three men holding Palestinian flags, the empty coffin was carried slowly along the main street of the village of Beit Likya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "In spirit and blood we sacrifice you," murmured one of the 250 onlookers, as others shouted, "Palestine is Arab!" The ceremony was a mock funeral for Jihad Ibrahim Badr, 16, one of the two Palestinians killed during the Easter morning shooting on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Both Badr and the other victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath...
...night before, and had purportedly confessed to throwing molotov cocktails at an Israeli bus. At gunpoint, the father was urged to sign the order and given 90 minutes to evacuate his family and their belongings. At 2:07 a.m., a thunderous blast rocked the West Bank town of Beit Sahur...
...Tuesday, four other houses of West Bank families had been destroyed, leaving 62 more Palestinians homeless. At the same time, Israeli authorities gave back 225 acres of impounded property to the residents of El Bira, 13 miles from Beit Sahur, and allowed two deported Palestinian leaders to return to their West Bank towns. The contradictory measures were vivid evidence of Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's emerging carrot-and-stick policy in the occupied territories...
...terrorism was the worst yet in a furious new round of violence between Jews and Arabs on the West Bank. After Arab youths stoned Israeli vehicles last month, Jewish militants from the settlement of Beit El outside Ramallah went on a window-smashing rampage through Arab towns, attacking cars and houses with stones and steel hammers. Tensions were inflamed further last week when Israeli military officers shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in a schoolyard scuffle in the West Bank village of Anabta. After the funeral, angry villagers paraded through the streets waving Palestinian flags, chanting anti-Israeli...
Soames vigorously defends his most controversial actions, such as the Beit Bridge decision. I knew that the South Africans were there," he argues. "In my view, they needed to be there. In no way is this going to interfere with how a single person votes in this country." On the auxiliaries-charged by many African nationalists with using heavyhanded tactics on behalf of Bishop Muzorewa-Soames is equally firm. "If you leave out the accusations of intimidation," he says, "the auxiliaries are doing a lot work that needs doing. They're helping to get the roads redone...