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Abed Rabu says his daughter Suwad died in Gaza on Jan. 7, the day Israeli tanks churned across the strawberry fields and knocked their way into a little park about 20 yards (18 m) from the family home. Residents of Jebel al-Kashif recall being warned by the Israelis through loudspeakers to evacuate their homes. "There was no fighting, so we weren't too worried when the Israelis told us to leave," Abed Rabu recalls. "I told my girls, 'Don't be scared. We've done nothing to the Israelis, so they won't hurt...
Whether the Israeli troops believed they were under threat when they opened fire is unclear. Most residents of Jebel al-Kashif claim there were no Hamas fighters in the area at the time of the alleged incident, but a middle-aged farmer in a battered army jacket took me aside and said, in a near whisper, that Hamas had been firing rockets from the vicinity of where the episode took place. An Israeli military spokesman told journalists investigating the shootings that the army had no information on the alleged incident but said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is "currently engaged...
...Among the harbingers of the changing mood: Nakheel, the developer of Dubai's proposed kilometer-high skyscraper near Jebel Ali airport, recently announced that it is reassessing its overall staffing needs in line with "predictions of a downturn in the global economy." Boardrooms and coffee shops alike are buzzing with talk about the coming fall. The Cairo-based investment bank EFG-Hermes recently predicted that Dubai property values could tumble as much as 20% in the next three years. Share prices of Emaar, a public Dubai company that has become one of the biggest real estate developers in the world...
...Meanwhile, Israel police moved swiftly over the weekend to calm down the settlers' rage after the seminary killings. Police stopped three right-wing activists from trying to tear down the mourning tent outside the house of gunman Ala Abu Dhaim in the Arab village of Jebel Mukabir...
...Palestinians for their martyr, Abu Dhaim, the quiet and religiously minded 25-year-old who appeared to his friends to be far more obsessed with thoughts of his upcoming marriage than with a jihadi's paradise. Meanwhile, at the tent for mourners outside Abu Dhaim's home in Jebel Mukabir, the flags of Israel's two greatest enemies, Hamas and Hizballah of Lebanon, rippled in the spring breeze. Overnight, Israeli police arrested Abu Dhaim's male relatives, a few neighbors and his fiancee. But visitors to Jebel Mukabir said there was no denying the pride that some Palestinians felt...