Word: jenin
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...with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated, burned, rotting in the open air--freezes everyone in angry disbelief...
...coalition partners to bolt. But that's a risk he may be willing to take in order to steal Netanyahu's thunder. On Sharon's left flank, the political fallout from "Operation Defensive Shield" may prove corrosive. While it's unlikely that Israeli forces deliberately killed Palestinian civilians in Jenin, the fact that Israeli forces found themselves flattening a swath of houses in refugee camp in pursuit of some 100 hardcore fighters is instructive of the type of war Israel faces in the West Bank. Those 100 fighters almost certainly had the support of the non-combatant population, and that...
...PHOTO ESSAYS Terror Attack Kills 19 Grief in Jenin More Photos...
...Sharon's priority right now. Not that he's immune to pressure from Washington - Sharon has made it clear that U.S. prodding is the only reason he's accepted a U.N. inquiry into the events during and after the battle that allegedly killed a substantial number of civilians in Jenin's refugee camp. But on Tuesday he suspended Israel's decision to cooperate with the inquiry, citing Israel's unhappiness that it is composed primarily of humanitarian officials rather than military experts. The Israeli leader's primary concern right now may be his own political survival, and the fact that...
...irrelevant that the cartoon fell short of placing a Palestinian or Arab label on the snakes. To refer to Palestinians as snakes not only reflects plain bigotry but it also reveals greater malice: by de-humanizing and vilifying Palestinians, and failing to highlight the Israeli killing of civilians in Jenin and elsewhere, your paper perpetuates Israeli myths of victimization and justifies the continuation of occupation...