Word: haifa
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...MIDDLE EAST Renewed suicide bombing and the installation of a new Israeli hard-line coalition set back hopes for peace in the region. A member of the Palestinian group Hamas killed 15 people and injured 40 when he blew himself up on a bus in the port city of Haifa, the first such attack in two months. Shortly afterward, 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded in a raid by Israeli troops on the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya. Israeli officials denied accusations by the Palestinian Authority that the raid had been a revenge attack. In further violence...
...does, lose pathetically. That seems to summarize the European strategy in World War II and even today. Back in the 1940s, America and the U.S.S.R. saved Europe. Today the U.S. is again taking responsibility for doing the dirty work. Europe should shut up and be grateful. ODED WOLFF Haifa, Israel...
...trip, which was sponsored by a branch of the American Jewish Committee, I spent about eight days in Israel with ten other college journalists, visiting Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. We met with both Israeli and Palestinian professors, public servants, journalists and average citizens. It was a terrific opportunity to see a beautiful part of the world that boasts an incredible history and meaning for so many people. But more importantly, it was a window into life in a part of the world about which most of us know very little...
...joiner. He dreamed of happy years to come, of marriage and family: "The freedom which had smiled at me on the day of my release was an impetus for my will to live and my ambition." But in 1997, he says, the minibus taking him to work in Haifa was strafed by Israeli soldiers; bullets hit him in the legs, seriously wounding him. Said's disillusionment was complete. "We were and are begrudged [the right] to lead a more or less happy life," he says. "Our dream of a sovereign state ... has proved a fantasy." Determined...
...Though he has no chance of becoming Prime Minister, Mitzna remains quixotically determined to limit Labor's expected losses, so he can 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...