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...Pope preach in France despite criticisms of his visit falling on the anniversary of a 16th-century Roman Catholic massacre of Protestants... West Bank Unrest: Israeli troops teargas stone-throwing youths - nobody's hurt - while men tear down an Israeli barricade blocking a road into the village of Beit Sahour. Defective Diplomacy?: North Korean denies reports its ambassador to Egypt defected to another country... Eyes Peeled: A $205 million NASA science mission is delayed when two shrimp boats are sighted in the offshore launch zone.. Cop Killed: A third New Hampshire state trooper is shot dead in a routine...
...than incidents like those perpetrated by Friedman--and also sadly far less notable to the world at large. She and her 12-year-old son Ephraim died almost a month ago, after having been gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian terrorists outside the Jewish settlement of Beit El. The two killers, Abdel Nasser Qaysi and Ibrahim Kam, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a secret Palestinian court a week later, convicted not of murder but of "betraying the security of the Palestinian people." Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, defending the convictions before indignant leaders...
...serious problem: that his government may be too right-wing to make the concessions necessary to keep the peace process alive." Some of his constituents are clearly not helping. Early Friday, Jewish families set up seven mobile homes on Artis Hill, disputed land near the West Bank settlement of Beit El. They were later joined by some 200 more swaying, praying settlers, who promised to build a new settlement on the site. Palestinian farmers say Artis Hill belongs to them. As both sides struggle to resolve the conflict, Arafat and U.S. envoy Dennis Ross must now deal with a somewhat...
...fugitive Islamist did, however, take phone calls. And that proved his undoing. Last week Ayyash, 29, was killed in a house in Beit Lahiya, in the Gaza Strip, by an explosion from the earpiece of a telephone he was holding. His demise ended one of the most intensive manhunts ever conducted by Israeli security--a search for the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...told police he had been planning to kill Rabin since at least January. The Prime Minister had been scheduled to go to Yad Vashem that month to visit the sacred memorial to the Holocaust, but when the Islamic Jihad launched a suicide bomb at a bus depot at the Beit Lid Junction in Central Israel, he canceled the visit. Several months later, Amir allegedly planned to assassinate Rabin at a highway dedication in Kfar Shmaryahu, but that time he could not penetrate the Prime Minister's security detail...