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...Administration, has said it would be in "Israel's overwhelming best interests" not to launch any retaliatory strikes against Iraq. Through his aides, Bush also demanded last month that Israeli forces lift their siege of Yasser Arafat's compound and hold back in the West Bank and Gaza. It's working: Israeli officials now say they may withdraw the army from Hebron by the end of this week...
...have been acting on orders from al-Qaeda. Abdullah Kandari described how his brother, just before he headed to Falaika Island to launch his attack, had become angry watching the 9pm news on Kuwait TV, which had broadcast footage of Palestinians killed by an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Yunis. According to Abdullah, Anas had jumped to his feet and cried, "God is generous, O Americans! We shall come and slaughter you like you have been slaughtering us!" Abdullah Kandari said that his brother blamed the U.S. more than Israel, and questioned...
...have hoped those efforts would by now have calmed the situation to the point where it wouldn't interfere with a mobilization against Iraq. Instead, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears to be back on the boil. Arab TV screens have been filled this week with images of mayhem in Gaza following Monday's Israeli raid on Hamas supporters in the Khan Younis refugee camp that killed at least 13 Palestinians. That left Hamas threatening new suicide attacks, Israel threatening further incursions and the U.S. urging restraint. And new conflict threatens on a second front, as Lebanon prepares to start pumping...
...part, the group’s plan calls for an end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, giving the Jewish parts of Jerusalem to Israel and the Palestinian parts to Palestine and international guarantees of security for a stable new Palestinian state and for Israel...
...months ago when a roadside bomb blew up her school bus. From the doorstep, her father Ophir calmly watches her go. He knows she can't run far. Her leg is still weak, and in any case no one ventures alone outside this isolated Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, a tiny fortress under constant threat of Palestinian attack. Three of Ophir Cohen's eight children lost limbs in the bus bombing, an incident that shook his commitment to stay in Kfar Darom, a settlement of 51 families. But after living near Tel Aviv for 21 months during the children...