Word: deheisha
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...Caffit, on my way to meet a source who favored another restaurant. An hour later, waiters at the cafe wrestled a suicide bomber to the ground before he could detonate his explosives. Then at midnight, two Israeli tanks and a bulldozer pulled up on the road between Bethlehem and Deheisha refugee camp outside the home of our Palestinian affairs correspondent, Jamil Hamad. The bulldozer carved a trench seven feet deep across the road, right to Jamil's front step. It also busted through water pipes and flooded the ground floor of the house--where his son and two grandchildren slept...
...believe that now. So on the street, last week, Hamas showed off its power. In more than one case, supporters faced down Arafat's police when they came to make arrests. Neighbors in Bethlehem's Deheisha refugee camp spat at Palestinian Authority troops who tried to pick up Issa Marzook, a Hamas activist and correspondent for Hizballah TV, as a throng ganged around them shouting "Spies! Collaborators! Dogs!" The police retreated without Marzook. Says an Arafat aide: "Hamas is a political power and not a security threat only." Hamas officials voice their defiance. "Arafat is the chairman, but we shall...
Later in the evening, young men from the Deheisha camp--many of whose inhabitants felt that Arafat had used the Pope for his larger cause but has no intention of pressing the Israelis on repatriation--rioted in the streets against Palestinian police after John Paul had left...
...Deheisha, the speech's effect depended on whether one listened to the Pope's music or his words. He made no mention of flash points such as the "silence" of Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII or the distinction between sins of misguided church members and the possible misguidance of the church as a whole. Some Jewish leaders later pointed this out. But most echoed the American Jewish Congress's Phil Baum, who admitted that "it was perhaps wishful thinking that the Pope would explicitly apologize in his visit to Yad Vashem today for the silence of Pope Pius...
With his nuanced and elegant responses to challenges posed by Deheisha and Yad Vashem, it seemed briefly that the Pope might have a true knack for parsing the Holy Land's distressing riddles. But by that evening the region once more manifested its ability to humble even the most high-minded and surefooted. For months John Paul had been anticipating a grand interfaith meeting between himself and Jewish and Muslim leaders. Originally he planned it for Mount Sinai, but the location was dropped as logistically difficult. Then Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Ekrema Sabri, the chief Muslim leader in the Palestinian...