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...have made the emaciated victims in black and white striped concentration camp garb proud if they knew that next to them, in similarly glossy, yet much more dignified and multicolored photographs, were the pictures of smiling children walking upright in the streets of Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv, or Haifa, or countless other Israeli cities? Why were there no pictures of the diversity of modern Israeli cities--of the Ethiopian and Russian and thousands of other different immigrants--a demonstration for the world that the Jews now have a safe haven and are being protected by their own? Why were there...
...citizens and also, perhaps, military security. In return, the Palestinians are holding firm to their desire to push the Jews into the sea. I implore Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres to honor the Bible and refuse to sign future Oslo agreements until the Palestinians change. DEBORAH WUNSCH BACH Haifa, Israel Via E-mail...
Stories filtering out of Iraq in the wake of the defection of two of the dictator's military commanders (and sons-in-law) suggest that Saddam's army is a threat mainly to other Iraqis. Amatzia Baram, chairman of the department of Middle Eastern history at Haifa University, calculates that up to 30% of Saddam's fighting troops, unable to subsist on meager army rations, have deserted, and many now roam the country as armed bandits. The rest are hardly in top shape. According to diplomatic and academic sources in Britain, when Saddam massed troops near the Kuwaiti border last...
DIED. PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, 32, founder of the "X-men," a group of paranormally gifted, socially conscious mutants; of an accidental zapping by his son Legion during a shoot-out with archenemy Magneto; in Haifa, Israel. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that due to Legion's ability to travel through time, he killed his father 20 years in the past, thus creating an alternate reality in which the X-men don't exist...
...local Arab groups initiated attacks against Jewish civilians such as the murder of 39 workers at the Haifa refineries and the planting of explosives in Jewish towns which killed dozens of people. In Ben-Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, scores of men, women and children were killed or maimed when Arab assailants exploded a bomb in the crowded city center. By March, 1948, more than 1,200 Jews had been killed, half of them civilians...