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...Christian tourists had been flocking to the town before the Palestinian authorities made their decision. Bethlehem, which lies seven or eight miles south of central Jerusalem, has been a flash point of confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli troops during the current intifada, and all access points to the town have been tightly guarded by Israeli troops. The Bethlehem suburb of Beit Jalla has suffered heavy Israeli shelling after being used as cover by Palestinian snipers firing on the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. Municipal authorities cited the death of seven Palestinian youths from the town over the past...
Never mind the Grinch; the Israeli army stole Christmas. Or at least that's the way the Palestinian Authority would like you to see it. The city fathers of Bethlehem, an Arab town (35 percent Christian, 65 percent Muslim) which falls under PA jurisdiction, have decided that Christ's birth will not be celebrated in his birthplace this year - at least not officially. Although the local economy is heavily dependent of tourists drawn every Christmas season to the Church of the Nativity on Manger Square, the local authorities have canceled the outdoor concerts of previous holiday seasons and have announced...
...chain has eschewed beef there out of respect for Hindu dietary customs. And only weeks before the latest intifada began, the Palestinian Authority was trying to interest Mickey D's in setting up shop in a series of malls planned for such latter-day hotspots as Kalkilya, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Ramallah...
...Israelis and two Palestinians were killed in fierce clashes Monday, in a new escalation of violence that has followed Israel's decision last week to begin assassinating Fatah militia leaders it believes are orchestrating attacks against Israelis. Last Thursday's helicopter rocket attack on a local militia leader in Bethlehem reminded many Israeli commentators of their army?s tactics in Lebanon, and the association is an uncomfortable one for many Israelis. After all, they lost hundreds of young men there over the years, and were still forced to withdraw under the relentless jabbing of Hezbollah...
...Iraq if Israel tried to retake the Gaza Strip. He knows that his 34,000 lightly armed paramilitaries can't stand up to a real onslaught from Israel, which has standing armed forces of 186,000 and some of the world's most sophisticated weaponry. The mayors of Bethlehem, Beit Jalla and Beit Sahour, three Palestinian towns south of Jerusalem, faxed Arafat's chief of National Security Forces in the West Bank, Tawfik Tirawi, begging him to restrain the gunmen whose sniping drew Israeli retaliation on their citizens...