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With the peace process falling apart, the last thing Israel needs is civil war. But that is what it almost had in its Arab neighborhoods and towns during the past two weeks. Israel's Arab minority rioted in the Galilee and in major cities like Jaffa and Haifa. Jewish mobs responded with attacks of their own. "Coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel has started to collapse," says Salah Tarif, a Druze Arab member of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's One Israel party...
...city would be split in a way that would "reconcile existing realities," an implicit suggestion that Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem be incorporated into Israel's portion of the city. "There is ideology and there is reality, and we have to be realists," said JOSEPH GINAT, an anthropologist at Haifa University who initiated the project. A political division of Jerusalem is the obvious solution to the dispute over the city, said Ginat, "but nobody in Israel said it before. No one put his name...
...that had been refurbished, so that the birds could return to familiar haunts. The birdhouses are plain pinewood, about the size of a shoebox, with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing up on a kibbutz near Nazareth, and oversees 16 other conservation programs. "We had eight pairs breeding in our boxes last year. We can't say yet that we've saved them...
...strings of the Lebanese marionette government, has no interest in guaranteeing Israel's security. For Syria, the prospect of peace in Lebanon is a bargaining chip to be used in negotiations regarding the Golan Heights. Without the security zone, major cities in the north of Israel, such as Haifa and Safed, would be in range of rockets fired from Lebanon...
...diverse factions of Kurdish and Iraqi dissidents into an opposition against Saddam Hussein. With Baghdad's re-entry into northern Iraq, that mission was obliterated. "Saddam has knocked out many of America's eyes and ears, and your good name was tarnished," says Professor Amatzia Baram of Israel's Haifa University, a leading Iraq expert. "U.S. credibility and reputation for protecting its friends has suffered a terrible blow." Even as the U.S. deploys F-117 Stealth fighter-bombers to temper Saddam's erratic outbursts, the CIA must rebuild its Iraqi operation from the bottom...