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...outward as well as inward. "The reason we named this orchestra is because Goethe was one of the first Germans to be really interested in other countries - he started learning Arabic when he was over 60." Barenboim is 59 and addresses his young musicians in a mix of English, Hebrew, Spanish and German. Most were selected on the basis of tapes they submitted. Mina Zikri, 24, an Egyptian violinist, says the experience "humanizes the other party a bit." He is sitting next to a blond woman of his age, Ayelet Ballin, a bassoonist from Tel Aviv. "Images can be very...
...Although the judge stopped him from reading a list of charges against Israel, the stout 43-year-old Fatah leader signaled his intention to use his trial as a bully pulpit. "Security will only be achieved ... by peace," told journalists, using the Hebrew he mastered during previous stays in Israeli prisons. "And peace will only be achieved by the end of the occupation...
...Even if the trial does create a platform for Barghouti to address his propaganda message in Hebrew to an Israeli public made all too aware that his incarceration has done nothing to stop the relentless wave of terror attacks - and also that the open-ended war with the Palestinians has accelerated a disastrous shrinkage of the Israeli economy - it may be some time before he can reap the benefits. Israel's attorney general wouldn't have ordered the trial if he wasn't confident of a conviction. And while prison may restrict Barghouti to a symbolic presence in Palestinian politics...
...told his Cabinet how he plans to thwart the Americans. First, elections will be held in January only if the Israelis pull their troops out of all Palestinian towns--something that looks less likely with each new terror attack, like the Hebrew University bombing last week that killed seven. Second, rather than be relegated to a symbolic role, Arafat plans to step aside as President and run for the Prime Minister's job himself. He has suggested Haider Abdel Shafi, a respected Gazan, for the ceremonial presidency. Abdel Shafi was unavailable for comment, but aides close to Arafat...
...Thank God I have theater for my therapy. If I don't have theater, I would take a gun and shoot many people." NORMAN ISSA, Arab-Israeli actor with the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa, an actors' group committed to partnership between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, on his divided feelings...