Word: bethlehem
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...focus of their raids from "ticking time bombs"--the suicide bombers--to the entire "ticking infrastructure," including the strategists, bombmakers and paymasters. The army's Operation Defensive Shield in spring 2002 left Israeli troops positioned in and around every major Palestinian city in the West Bank. Except for the Bethlehem area, from which they withdrew, the Israelis still hold those positions, allowing commanders to contain the movements of possible terrorists and deploy troops at a moment's notice when intelligence pinpoints...
...sure, there has certainly been some progress in the situation since the "roadmap" was launched in June - the past month has been the most peaceful since the armed intifada began in September 2000; Israel has withdrawn troops from part of Gaza and the Bethlehem area, and made a few symbolic gestures in respect of settlement outposts built without government permission. But in terms of many of the key requirements of the first phase of the "roadmap" - a Palestinian campaign to disarm and dismantle groups that have waged the terror campaign; Israeli easing of Palestinian living conditions, dismantling settlement outposts built...
Five days later, Coffin's body was back in Bethlehem, Pa., where Betsy was staying with her family. The funeral was held in the church where he and Betsy had renewed their wedding vows two years earlier. Two-thirds of the choir rearranged their schedules so they could come to sing, and the organist took the day off in order to be there to play. A college professor, a drama teacher and a fund manager helped the rector trim hedges; an elderly parishioner spent the night before the funeral freezing lemonade and ice rings because the day of the funeral...
...withdrawals from towns in the West Bank and Gaza. But Abbas faces opposition within his own Fatah faction and must crack down on renegades. To do so, he is quietly working with Arafat, who still controls much of the Palestinian security apparatus. When senior Palestinian security officials met in Bethlehem just before Israel handed over control of the city, the gathering was headed by Haj Ismail Jabr, chief of the National Security Forces in the West Bank and an Arafat underling, officials who were there tell TIME. Jabr warned he would brook no violence against Israel. "We're going...
...goes ahead, Hamas's hudna will clear the way for implementation of the first steps of Phase 1 of the roadmap, in which a cease-fire allows the Palestinian Authority to resume security control in Gaza and the West Bank city of Bethlehem. But the truce introduces an even sharper dispute on the next security steps. Israel, and the Bush administration, have warned that the roadmap requires not a tactical cease-fire by Hamas, but the systematic disarming and dismantling of the organization and other groups that have waged terror attacks...