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...JERUSALEM, Israel — In the United States, the issue of “loyalty to the state” smacks of extreme right-wing xenophobia, the sort that characterized, say, the McCarthy Communist witch hunts of the 1950s...
...small nation has engaged in at least four wars since then, each of which defended and expanded its territories in the midst of hostile neighbors, creating an ongoing, bloody fight for survival. And the random acts of terrorism that were for so long a fixture of daily life in Jerusalem bring that struggle to the forefront even in times of “peace...
...government was quick and wise to remove “al-naqba” from the textbooks, but it did nothing other than temporarily suspend Jerusalem buses from running through the rioter’s own neighborhood...
...National Security Adviser Jones and White House Iran strategist Ross, meanwhile, arrived in Jerusalem for their own talks early in the week. Jones has standing on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, having served as George W. Bush's Middle East envoy, and Ross is the architect of the Administration's strategy for dealing with Iran. The U.S. has been pushing for the resumption of final-status talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which stalled early in 2001, and Ross and Jones are reinforcing Mitchell's efforts to broker an Israeli settlement freeze in exchange for Arab goodwill gestures. The Israelis...
This is not the first time, however, that the Shas party has been embroiled in a corruption controversy. Two Shas ministers have been convicted on corruption charges in recent years. Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies in Jerusalem, explains that some parts of the ultra-Orthodox community tend to disregard secular law, despite a tenacious adherence to the minutest detail of Jewish religious ritual. Says Halevi: "You have a kind of borderless community that in its best expressions maintains international charity efforts that are second to none. But the dark side of this...