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...more about the Palestinian side,” said Divinity School student Hayfa M. Abdul Jaber, a Palestinian who was born and raised in Kuwait and who is now enrolled in one of Oren’s courses.Huda Abuarquob, a resident of the West Bank city of Hebron and a master’s student at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, said she recognized that the disengagement was “heartbreaking” from Israelis’ perspective. But, she said, “it’s trauma from all sides.”Meanwhile, Oren?...
...around a third of all Palestinian voters now support Hamas, a radical Islamist group committed to destroying Israel but also widely viewed among Palestinians as a vehicle for clean and competent government. "I came here today to vote for Hamas," Mustaffa, 46, told Time outside a polling station in Hebron. "Perhaps my vote will contribute to getting rid of PA corruption." Hamas supporter Zahra was eager to talk up her party. "We have to prove to the whole world that Hamas is concerned about the future of the Palestinians," she said soon after voting. Asked what sort of future that...
...Hroub gouges a square of chipboard with a chisel until the image of a woman's genitals emerges. The 27-year-old Palestinian artist is making prints for an exhibit that will highlight "things that are forbidden in our society," he says. Denounced in his own village near Hebron as immoral, al-Hroub came to this town of more than 100,000 citizens to join a new generation of artists whose focus is surprisingly free of the nationalism and violence for which Palestinians are usually noticed. The relative freedom of expression in Ramallah has fueled a major revival, since last...
...negotiations between Victoria's Secret and Forest Ethics continue. "We have been good environmental stewards, and we recognize there is more to be done," says Anthony Hebron, spokesman for Limited Brands. Forest Ethics, meanwhile, is on a roll. It is developing a Do Not Mail campaign, modeled on the Do Not Call registry, to let consumers decide whether they want to be barraged with junk mail. And Paglia wants to change the way catalogs are distributed. "In the Internet age, printing catalogs at this volume is like running cars on a steam engine," he says. "It would be quaint...
...level of the street, however, the Friedman outrage served only to intensify the bitterness of the two communities in Hebron, a mutual hatred that is unsurpassed anywhere else in the Holy Land. The mother of twin boys Akram and Abdel Karim Atrash, 16, both shot in the leg by Friedman, had but one thing to say from her sons' hospital room: "Those settlers should be butchered." For their part, the Jews of Hebron this time were careful not to give public praise. But they have a monument that to the Arabs speaks louder than words: a shrine outside Hebron erected...