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...friend Abergil. "She misled him. He told us that she was from Jerusalem." Israeli police discovered the body of a boy on the outskirts of Ramallah. Israeli intelligence traced Muna's screen name to an Internet café in Ramallah and tracked her down to her parents' home in Bir Naballah, a village north of Jerusalem, where she was seized days after the murder...
...There's another thing we can do to help. How about if we all cut down on greed, selfishness and impatience? Dzongsar Jamyang Khyenste, BIR, INDIA...
...conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story of the Middle East for years has been, in many ways, an endless pageant of the self-defeating. ''We were in a different time zone 40 years ago,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian professor of philosophy at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. As the Zionist immigration came to critical mass, especially after World War II and the Holocaust, when Israel became the haven for 687,000 new immigrants with no homes elsewhere in the world, the Arabs' alarm rose to lethal levels. ''We found ourselves paying...
...Israelis, who had previously assaulted the Palestinian settlements from the air, soon encountered troubling problems closer to home. Palestinian students staged a demonstration at Bir Zeit University, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Restive Israeli troops fired on them, killing two youths and wounding twelve. The next day Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian near the city of Nablus after he threw stones at them. Once again, tension in the West Bank was running high...
...finally decided to leave Bir al-Abed because of the pleading of his children. "My wife told me that my eldest son is very worried and my other son has stopped eating because he's scared. There's no space at my in-laws, so I slept in the car." His troubles haven't discouraged him from supporting Hizballah, however, and he even welcomed a ground invasion by Israel. "On the ground, they are weaker and we are stronger," he said. "We cannot retaliate against their military jets," he added. "It's not honorable to destroy a people...