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...Maximum-Security Manger Like Jamil Hamad, I too bemoan the changes that have transformed Bethlehem [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. I do so as a former Israeli soldier who had the honor of guarding the Church of the Nativity in the mid-1980s. But I take issue with a number of Hamad's insinuations. He was critical of the security checkpoints, but since the city is no longer under Israeli control, why should the crossing into Israel be different from that between the U.S. and Canada, for instance? Hamad also took issue with the Israeli security wall but failed...
...Like Jamil Hamad, I too bemoan the changes that have transformed Bethlehem [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. I do so as a former Israeli soldier who had the honor of guarding the Church of the Nativity when the city was still under Israeli control. But I take issue with a number of subtle insinuations in Hamad's article. He was critical of the security checkpoints, but since the city is no longer under Israeli control, why should the crossing into Israel be different from those between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico, for instance? Hamad also...
...into the West Bank passed without a hitch. But the real challenge for the presidential phalanx of bodyguards will come when his tour moves on to possibly more dangerous territory - Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt - where Bush is even less popular. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
...same was true in Bethlehem, where even children were kept off the roads and many, including the wife of TIME correspondent Jamil Hamad, were forbidden by soldiers to glance out the window of their own homes. At Manger Square, in front of Jesus' birthplace, American security experts were spotted prying up manholes to check sewage pipes for bombs. These draconian security precautions prompted one Palestinian official, who opposes his own President's close ties with Bush, to comment: "What's all this fear? Is it because the Americans and Palestinians running this show know they're doing something wrong...
...their full legitimacy. Hamas' charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. But after Annapolis, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are making it their priority to urge Abbas into rebuilding unity with Hamas, even if the Bush Administration and Israel oppose the idea. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem