Word: jaffa
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Just for the record: in the case of the U.S. v. Microsoft, Justice antitrust chief Joel Klein is not representing my views. Go, Gates! Long live Microsoft! DAVID J. JAFFA West Friendship...
...Israel's "independence" can only conjure up one incident in my mind. This true story is one that my mother told me, and one which I will tell to my children and grandchildren. The story is that of my grandmother, Naheel, who lived in the coastal town of Jaffa in current-day Israel. Some 47 years ago, Naheel was preparing a hot meal on her oven. Israeli soldiers broke into the house, and ordered her to leave her home. Leaving her food on the stove, Naheel left her home, never to return again...
Displaced Palestinians demonstrated in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, countries that are negotiating with Israel. In Israel proper there were outbreaks of stone throwing among Arabs in such cities as Nazareth and Jaffa, an ominous development: Israeli Arabs, while sympathetic with their brethren in the occupied territories, have hardly ever resorted to violence...
...group's aggressive violence has made Israel's occu-pation of the Gaza Strip moredangerous than ever. Israeli soldiers are constantly stoned and frequently shot at. Civilians in Israel are often targets. When three factory workers were partly disemboweled in Jaffa three years ago, the Israeli government arrested hundreds of Hamas activists and deported four of their leaders. Hamas proceeded to increase its attacks, using guns and knives and an occasional roadside explosive charge. Israel retaliated against the escalating violence last December by deporting 415 leaders and supporters of Islamic movements, particularly Hamas, to wintry southern Lebanon. But their banishment...
...would enter through Jaffa Gate and walk through the narrow market on David Street dividing the Jewish and Arab quarters, and then decide whether to explore the recently renovated Jewish neighborhood or to brave the suspicions and hostile gazes of the Arab section.Ever since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, this quintessentially inter-mixed and inter-woven city has become increasingly segregated, with less and less Jewish-Arab interaction. As these eternal inhabitants of this city have become more and more distant, suspicions and hostilities have grown, with no interlocutor to explain misunderstandings, no middle ground...