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...meaning the only way the threshold could be met was for Russia to join. The treaty requires industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012. Unbroken Circle MIDDLE EAST The Palestinian Cabinet declared a state of emergency as Israel continued a major military operation inside the Gaza Strip, intended, it said, to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets at villages in southern Israel. More than 50 Palestinians and five Israelis died in some of the bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along...
...government did agree to set up a commission to evaluate the losses, to serve as a "reminder" of the war's consequences. Sharon Resolute MIDDLE EAST Israel's security cabinet approved a compensation package that would give up to $500,000 per family to settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank as part of the planned pullout next year. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a call by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the "disengagement" policy to be put to a referendum, arguing that it was a ploy to delay its implementation...
Matt Rees' "Letter From Jerusalem" [Aug. 2] referred to the separation wall being built by the Israelis, saying it might prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from crossing to Israel. However, it has not prevented Israeli army incursions into the West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. AZZAM EL-HAIT Cairo
...Selectively Permeable Wall Matt Rees' "Letter From Jerusalem" [Aug. 2] referred to the separation wall being built by the Israelis, saying it might prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from crossing to Israel. However, it has not prevented Israeli army incursions into the West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands, and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. Azzam El-Hait Cairo
...DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, New York Times veteran war correspondent known for poignantly chronicling the effect of war on ordinary people in such places as Vietnam, Nigeria and Gaza; of apparent suicide; in New York City. Her book on the aftereffects of the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers, won a National Book Award in 1978. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson told an interviewer later that she went to Vietnam because "they...