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...most extraordinary promise President Bush has made about the positive effects of an Iraq war is that it will ease the path to Israeli-Palestinian peace. The president believes that the key obstacle to peace right now is Palestinian terrorism - again on display in Haifa Wednesday, where a suicide bomber killed 15 Israelis - and that removing Saddam will somehow stop that terrorism. "The passing of Saddam Hussein's regime will deprive terrorist networks of a wealthy patron that pays for terrorist training, and offers rewards to families of suicide bombers," the president said in a speech last week. "Without this...
...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...