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...clear in the interview that he sees the Oslo peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin as dangerously deluded - and that he, Sharon, has no intention whatsoever of pursuing it. Withdrawing from the Golan Heights or the Jordan Valley or removing the Israeli settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza deprives Israel of the "strategic depth" to defend herself, Sharon insists. Returning those lands to Arab control - as his predecessors had considered - is not an option for Sharon, and Ehud Barak, he says, had no right to even discuss sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians...
...bomb explosions that killed two Israeli teenagers and a shooting that killed a 10-month-old child. The air strikes destroyed the headquarters of Yasser Arafat's Force 17 élite guard, killing two people and wounding at least 60. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the bombardment of Gaza and Ramallah was a warning to Yasser Arafat to discipline his militant supporters, but the Palestinian leader said the uprising would continue "until the Palestinian flag is raised on the walls, churches and mosques of holy Jerusalem." Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in subsequent clashes in the Gaza Strip...
This was neither a beginning nor an end. The rockets that glared over Ramallah and Gaza Wednesday night were simply punctuation points on the canvas of death being painted by Palestinians and Israelis. The two Palestinians who blew themselves up last week as suicide bombers believed they were inscribing their souls into a future of national freedom by taking the lives of two Israelis and wounding about 40 others. The Israeli pilots didn't turn the night into an inferno in the belief that it would be the last time they would fly. The pilots' mission was the first move...
...battle erupted on the Internet last December when msnbc.com sponsored a contest for the best news photo of 2000. The early leader was a picture of Mohammed al-Durra, 12, a terrified Palestinian boy screaming and hiding behind his father in the midst of a street battle in the Gaza Strip. Moments after the photo was taken, he was killed in the cross fire. Several weeks into the contest, however, a wave of Web surfers, spurred by mass e-mails among Israeli sympathizers, swamped the site with votes for cute-animal photos. (A crippled puppy using a wheeled cart...
...Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in the last three decades has been U.N. Security Resolution 242, passed after the Six Day War, in which Israel won and occupied several pieces of territory from its neighbors, including East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, as well as Gaza Strip. Against these gains, Resolution 242 bases its conclusions on the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.” In other words, might does not make right. Resolution 242 calls unequivocally for the “withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied in the recent...