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...Hamas officials travel between the West Bank and Gaza. Israel refuses to talk with Hamas until the militants disarm and abandon their vow to destroy Israel. And Hamas leaders are incensed by one facet of Olmert's plan: if Hamas refuses to accept Israel, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders unilaterally. "Why should we recognize Israel," asks Aziz Dweik, Hamas' new Palestinian Assembly Speaker, "when Israel won't recognize our existence...
...many of the West Bank settlements, where over 250,000 Jews now live. As Gerald Steinberg, head of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar Ilan University, says, "Disengagement is hindered by Kadima's low results." Shas is against a pullout of settlers, while Beiteinu wants to draw the border so that many Israeli-Arab citizens would be pushed unwillingly into a future Palestinian state...
...many Israelis, those words were stirring stuff. But they don't seem to have cut much ice with Hamas. Leaders of the Islamic party are incensed by a key facet of Olmert's disengagement plan: If Hamas refuses to accept Israel's right to exist, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders without the Palestinians' consent. "Why should we recognize Israel," Aziz Dweik, a Hamas member and the new speaker of the Palestinian parliament, told TIME, "when Israel won't recognize our existence?" Israel, for its part, will not talk to Hamas until the militants abandon their vow to destroy...
...waitresses to "take off your blouse" for his table. Batali says everyone understood that he was joking. "It's never anything as sinister as it sounds when someone writes it down," he told me. But when you're in the business of hedonism, it's hard to draw lines...
...rambling building where he and George Harrison had attended high school, booed and donned T-shirts that said, "No torture, No compromise." Saturday's planned visit to the Masjide Al-Hidayah mosque in Blackburn was scrubbed, according to the BBC, because some members feared the event would draw an unruly crowd...