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...hold onto the party leadership after the election. New to the job and already stalked by party rivals, the former mayor of Haifa released his first campaign spots last week - and they didn't even mention his plan to restart negotiations with the Palestinians and evacuate Israeli settlements in Gaza. Instead, he went with the New Zionist flow and showed photos from his days as an army general, including a video clip in which assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, an old-time Zionist hero if ever there was one, heaped praise on Mitzna. The price for this return to Zionism...
...While Sunday's attack brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the headlines for the first time in some six weeks, violence has in fact been a daily staple of the current stalemate for months. Some 65 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza since December 1, and while the Tel Aviv bombers may have carried out the first terror attack inside Israel in six weeks, attacks on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza are a daily occurrence. A White House spokeswoman dubbed Sunday's attack an attempt to "derail the peace process...
...Israel's initial responses - air strikes in Gaza, closure of three West Bank universities, travel restrictions on Palestinian officials - are certainly comparatively muted, given that this was the most serious terror attack since the one that prompted the full-blown armored invasion of the West Bank last March. But Washington's concerns may not be the only reason: Israeli forces hold most Palestinian towns on the West Bank under siege and conduct regular raids and assassinations targeting suspected terrorists; they launch air strikes against leaders of radical groups and any facilities suspected of providing assistance to terror attacks; they bulldoze...
...little concerned about supporting the new Afghan government that it handed off its contract to provide security to President Hamid Karzai--who was nearly assassinated in September--to DynCorp Inc., a private firm in Virginia. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once spoke of the land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on which Bush wants to see a Palestinian state as the "so called" occupied territories. Vice President Dick Cheney has always given the impression he believes that the world, far from being ready for Jeffersonian democracy, is a dark and threatening place, as if he carried a misanthropic scar...
...mosque in Washington D.C. on the occasion of 'Id al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of Ramadan. The White House even persuaded Ariel Sharon to be conciliatory: Israel's Prime Minister offered the Palestinians a demilitarized state by 2005, encompassing parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There was no chance Palestinians would accept such a deal, since it barred them from East Jerusalem. They rejected it, demanding Israel leave the West Bank and Gaza entirely. Still, it's the closest Sharon has ever come to making nice. See Also: Islam in Europe MIDDLE EAST Gaza Attack...