Word: hebrews
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...Bishop Williamson, in order to be admitted to the episcopal [bishop] functions of the Church, must in an absolutely unequivocal and public way distance himself from his positions regarding the Shoah," the statement said, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. (See pictures of Holocaust survivors sharing their memories...
...Mitchell led an international fact-finding team looking into the roots of the Palestinian uprising known as the Intifadah. He drew a line connecting Palestinian anger to the spread of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and that line is still there, only more indelible. The leftist Hebrew daily Ha'aretz on Friday published a confidential report from the Israeli defense ministry stating that over 75% of construction in settlements ever built was done without the proper permits, and much of the building was carried out illegally on private Palestinian land...
...patriarch says he herded his wife, mother and three young daughters, Amal, 2; Samar, 4; and Suwad to the door and gave the children a white flag to wave. "Two Israeli soldiers were beside their tank, eating chocolate and potato chips," he recounts, waving empty wrappers bearing Hebrew writing that he found later in the debris. "It was like a picnic for them...
...Barak (leader of the Labor Party) and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (who replaced Olmert as leader of the Kadima party because of his impending corruption case) - are fierce political rivals. "If they were together on an island in a Survivor episode," says Reuven Hazan, a political scientist at the Hebrew University, "they would end up killing each other." And, needless to say with an election looming on February 10, that political rivalry appears to have had a major impact on Israel's conduct...
...challenge illegal demolition of Arab houses in East Jerusalem, keep an eye out for bullying Israeli guards at Palestinian checkpoints and fight in Israeli courts against army and police excesses. But even among these die-hard believers in peace, there is a sense of exhaustion, says David Shulman, a Hebrew University professor of Tamil language and culture who is an activist of Ta'ayush, which defends Palestinians from settlers who destroy their olive groves. "We're worn out," says Shulman. "The right wing has sold to the Israeli public [former Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon's foolish idea that there...