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...Incorrect," Bill Maher, suggested that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and Arabs throughout the Middle East had only themselves to blame for their predicament. After all, he said, there are 22 Arab states, and the Palestinians could just go to one of them instead of laying claim to Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank...
...using excessive force in response to the Palestinian intifada, even though they have to varying degrees criticized aspects of Palestinian conduct. And if the Mitchell inquiry endorses that view, it would add weight to Palestinian demands for an international monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. Mitchell?s centrality to the process may even raise pressure on Washington to endorse some version of that proposal, which is roundly rejected by Israel. The senator's report is expected in March, just in time to land at the top of the pile on the new president's desk...
...settlement of Neveh Dekalim is a harrowing 10-min. drive from Kfar Darom. As darkness comes, so does the time of greatest risk, when gunmen can move about with near impunity. Inside this largest of the 15 Gaza settlements, Noam and Leora Koenigsberg's three-year-old son Binyamin knows what darkness means. "Boom, boom," he says...
...teacher, with a shrug. Noam, 28, murmurs psalms when he hears the firing. "This is a God-given land. God wills that we fight for this land," he says, pointing to a map of Solomon's biblical kingdom, which shows the border of Israel extending south of the Gaza Strip into Sinai. "If you believe that the land is truly yours, it's natural to give up your lives to protect...
...week intifada - and, arguably, by Barak's reliance on a peace agreement to win reelection - has even higher expectations for the Mitchell inquiry. The Palestinian leader is hoping it will endorse his call for an international peacekeeping or monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. That's an idea to which Israel remains hostile, and for obvious reasons: Arafat wants peacekeepers deployed around Palestinian populations to make it more difficult for Israel to annex land if a Palestinian state is unilaterally declared. Of course the best-case scenario for the optimists on both sides is that...