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...quiet street in Sheikh Jarrah, an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem, the 40-year-old director's special effects team is having trouble with a Molotov cocktail that's supposed to be thrown in this scene. A group of gawking Palestinian youths offers to help make a good firebomb. "They have experience with this kind of thing," Suleiman says wryly. A 40-year-old from Nazareth, Israel's biggest Arab town, Suleiman takes the gritty realities of life for Israel's 1 million Arab citizens and examines the way identity is shaped for a people caught painfully in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Palestinians' Assert Themselves Inside Israel | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Both candidates this year are highly vulnerable to attack. The temptation to firebomb in those areas of vulnerability will, I suspect, be too great to resist. What areas? In the case of George W. Bush: abortion, capital punishment, gun control - all fairly passionate and motivating issues - and on top of those, what might be called the Doofus Dismissal: the persistent rap that he is not smart enough to be president. The first three questions will invite increasingly vicious us-versus-them rhetoric; the last will eat away at Bush by insinuation and late-night comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush and Gore's Phony Non-War Won't Last | 6/9/2000 | See Source »

Prozac Defense II, 1996 --Edward J. Leary claimed that a cocktail of Prozac and other drugs drove him mad and made him firebomb two subway trains. Verdict: guilty. Sentence: 94 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If the Twinkie Causes Fits, You Must Acquit | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

ARRESTED. SAM BOWERS, 73, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and subject of a May 18 TIME special investigation, along with two other alleged ex-Klansmen; charged with the 1966 firebomb murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr.; in Hattiesburg, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 8, 1998 | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...Nine people died in the firebomb attack on tourist buses outside the Egyptian Museum ? the largest attack in Cairo in two years. Says Radwan: "Although there has been some fighting in the south of the country, Cairo has been very quiet, and this came as a surprise ? at a time when tourism is booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motives Behind Cairo Attack | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

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