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Shortly before Ala' Abu Dhaim picked up a semiautomatic rifle, two pistols and lots of ammunition, he called his 17-year-old fiancée and made plans to go shopping the next day in Jerusalem. They were getting married in the summer and hoped to honeymoon in Turkey before moving into a house near olive groves. But Abu Dhaim, 25, was wrestling with darker forces. After hanging up the phone, he gathered his weapons in a cardboard television box and drove to the Mercaz Harav seminary in the heart of Jerusalem. Abu Dhaim climbed the stairs to a library, where...
...Dhaim doesn't fit the typical profile of a suicide terrorist. His East Jerusalem family had money and education, and his fiancée describes him as cheerful, gentle and apolitical. His behavior not only fooled her but shook Israelis who had been lulled into thinking that the specter of Palestinian bombers and gunmen was a distant nightmare (the last suicide bombing in Jerusalem was in September...
Nebuchadnezzar's magnificent city required abundant cheap labor, much of it provided by Jewish captives. In 601 B.C., Jehoiakim, King of Judah, forged an alliance with Egypt, which was embroiled in ongoing skirmishes with Babylon; as retribution, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, raiding Solomon's Temple and seizing 10,000 Jews to help build his city. This brutal history would later color the portrayal of Babylon in the Bible. "In Christian culture, Babylon was quite deliberately developed as a broad symbol of the city of sin," says Michael Seymour, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern collection. Indeed...
...move that is likely to bog down upcoming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed off on plans to build more than 1,000 homes inside disputed West Bank territory and in East Jerusalem...
...fragile coalition. Israel Radio reported that Olmert approved the settlement construction in the face of threats from the ultra-orthodox Shas party to pull down his government. Work will now restart on settlements in Givat Zeev, an ultra-orthodox enclave in the West Bank, and in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev...