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...danger is now haunting the Jewish state, a danger from within that could prove more lethal for Israel than all the Arab forces combined. Israelis, for so long sure of their cause, have started to doubt their moral worth. In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jaffa, Jews are throwing rocks and shooting at...other Jews. These violent confrontations are not just the product of discord over Lebanon and the refugee camp massacres. More long term problems--such as the fate of the occupied territories and tension between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews--have also engendered passion. But the events...
...Yehuda Haifa, Israel...
...went to Cana, walked the hills around Capernaum, studied the excavations at Jericho, worshiped at Bethlehem and swam in the Dead Sea. Rosalynn and I also walked along the escarpments of the Golan Heights, traveled slowly down the entire length of the Jordan River, rode the torpedo boats at Haifa and viewed a parade at a military training center at Bethel...
Jackson also got a standing ovation, but the conference took no action to carry out his call for some 500 mayors to march on Washington, with 1,000 followers apiece. "Haifa million voices in mass, disciplined, direct action," he insisted, "will get results." The mayors seemed more sympathetic to Young's urging that "a national coalition" of mayors, as well as business, labor, academic and government leaders, be organized to draft an "urban agenda" to be presented to Congress and the President immediately after the November elections...
...most violent rioting, huge rocks were hurled at passing Israeli cars and military patrols. As Israeli troops responded, at least 40 Palestinians were injured by rifle fire. In Nablus, Arab youths barricaded the road outside the Balata refugee camp with a wall of refrigerators. In the Judean Hills, the Haifa-Jerusalem train was brought to a halt by obstacles on the track, then stoned by Arab youths...