Word: israel
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While bouncing supply ships off his space station, cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev found time to star in a commercial. The fruits of his labor premiere Friday when Israel's Channel Two runs an ad for Tnuva, an Israeli brand of long-life milk, featuring Tsibliyev drinking a floating blob of it on the Mir space station. Hope Tsibliyev is getting royalties ? Russia is still considering withholding his flight bonus for his orbital fender-bender...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: That was quite an opener, but what will he do for an encore? On the first day of a two-day conference here, Yasser Arafat hugged and kissed Islamic militants ? including Hamas, the organization blamed for the recent double-suicide bombing ? and warned Israel a new revolt could be on the horizon...
...past, "Arafat's efforts to keep the fundamentalists on board have led them to stop launching terror attacks on Israel," says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "He thinks it can happen again, which would take lots of pressure...
...Beyer says Arafat is not above "sticking a finger in Israel's eye" by starting dialogue with Hamas (the largest Islamic group and the one Israel blames for numerous suicide attacks), the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad and some 10 other militant organizations. The Israeli government compares the talks to dealing with the devil ? and wants Arafat to arrest the militants and shut down their recruiting offices. There's not much chance of that while Arafat remains politically weakened by charges of corruption. Today's meeting, and the 1,500-strong Palestinian demonstration that accompanied it, is designed at least...
Meanwhile, in the ongoing skirmish on the northern border, Israel has retaliated after yesterday's rocket attack by bombing a Hizballah base on the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. Two children were hurt when the roof of their house collapsed in eastern Lebanon...