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...Haifa, Israel...
Throughout all her travels, she has forgotten neither her father, who died six years ago, nor her family's home, which now lies in Haifa, Israel. Dina N. Abu-Ghaida is Palestinian...
That summer she returned to the house in Haifa that had at one time belonged to her family. She found a picturesque stone building in the hilltop city that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians who left another part of the country now live in the house, located in the Arab section of the city...
Israel is scheduled to receive more than $3 billion in military aid from the U.S. this year. Meanwhile, its supporters in Congress will be closely watching any sales to Arab countries of weapons that might be turned against Tel Aviv or Haifa. But the alliance between the U.S. and Arab states during the war against Iraq has complicated matters. Last fall Israeli officials remained uncharacteristically silent when the U.S. provided Saudi Arabia with a multibillion-dollar infusion of advanced arms. Though pro-Israel lobbyists do not yet plan to oppose the sale to the Saudis, they are beginning to raise...
...Reagan's special Middle East envoy, on a visit to Israel. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Rumsfeld that Israel considered Iran, not Iraq, to be the greatest threat in the region. According to Teicher, Shamir proposed the construction of an oil pipeline from Iraq to the Israeli port of Haifa as a goodwill gesture. When the U.S. relayed the offer to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, he refused to pass it along to Saddam, saying the President would kill him on the spot...