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...Block 8 are clearly more thoughtful than their newer, younger cell mates. The eyes of the older men are tired and empty and desperate. It's a look that comes from too much reflection, says Nimr Shaaban, 37, who was jailed 17 years ago for throwing Molotov cocktails in Jerusalem. A while back, Shaaban found himself sharing a cell with a would-be suicide bomber picked up by Israeli police before he could detonate his charges. "I told him that suicide bombs are a big, big mistake," he says. "On the outside, they don't take time to consider moral...
...first interview with an English-language magazine since taking office in January, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief, Matt Rees, and correspondent Jamil Hamad last Saturday in his West Bank office. After buzzing an aide for a cigarette (he does not carry his own pack, believing, he joked, that "this keeps down my consumption"), Abbas talked for an hour about his challenges...
TIME: President Bush wrote Israeli Prime Minister Sharon a letter saying that in a final deal, there will be no right of return and there will be adjustments to the 1967 borders and the status of Jerusalem...
...thought he gave a short term solution, sort of a crisis management recipe for the situation in Israel-Palestine,” said Amal Alayan, a Palestinian graduate of MIT from Jerusalem who attended the speech...
Kurdish leaders are pushing to gain control of Kirkuk--known as the Jerusalem of Kurdistan--the capital of one of Iraq's most productive oil regions. Under Saddam, Kirkuk was subjected to a massive demographic reordering, as Saddam moved large numbers of Arabs into the city and tossed many Kurds out. The interim Iraqi government headed by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi agreed that Kirkuk should be normalized--meaning displaced Kurds would be allowed to return while the so-called new Arabs would be moved out and compensated. But though some 100,000 Kurdish refugees returned to Kirkuk in time...