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...standing argument, now gaining ground in Washington, that Israel's problems with the Palestinians are simply a subset of a world-terrorism conspiracy. On the same day as the Mombasa attacks, when Sharon's Likud Party was holding a primary, six Israelis were gunned down in the town of Beit Shean. "Terror is indivisible," said the Israeli Foreign Ministry on Thursday. With Mossad on the job, Israel warned the terrorists, "our arm is long...
...based in Baltinglass, 26 km away. By the time the police arrived the gang was long gone. As if all of that wasn't embarrassing enough, this was the fourth time in 28 years that Ireland's best-known private art collection had been robbed. It belongs to the Beit family, which inherited 150 paintings - along with other objets d'art, antique furnishings and books - from Otto Beit, co-founder of the De Beers diamond-mining company. Deirdre Rowsome, administrator of Russborough House, claims the building has "a very sophisticated, up-to-date security system, but the house...
...years younger than Sharon. Much will hinge on how many of Bibi's supporters within Likud win seats in the new legislature. About 45% of the 300,000 party members turned out, despite a Palestinian attack on a polling station in the northern city of Beit She'an, which killed six people and wounded 30. They were, one commentator said, "voting under fire." When the gunmen struck in the early afternoon, barely 30% of the voters had turned out. Worried that a low turnout might help the challenger, Sharon summoned a press conference and urged party members: "Go and vote...
...died a martyr, thank God," and for his house. What little sleep he got the previous night at his brother's home, where his family now stays, was disturbed by the sound of three powerful explosions as the Israelis blew up more homes near his village, Beit Jala...
...hope. For two decades, Sarasra, a schoolteacher, worked in the United Arab Emirates, saving his wages to one day build a place in his hometown in the West Bank. Finally, three years ago, encouraged by the prospect of Palestinian self-determination and peace with Israel, Sarasra returned to Beit Jala and built his simple house of cinder block and poured concrete. It was to be a home for his children and the families they would raise in the independent Palestinian state Sarasra thought would come soon. But in one night that idea turned into broken slabs of concrete and contorted...