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...disappointed that you didn't mention the passing of the great film director Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day Ingmar Bergman did. Having rightly mentioned Bergman, you should also have commemorated Antonioni. Tamar Ahronovitch, Jerusalem...
...entire area is called the holy land in part because King Solomon erected the first Jewish Temple in the Jewish city of Jerusalem in the 10th century B.C. And one wouldn't know from Hamad's article that Jesus was a Jew. When Muslim armies arrived to take the Holy Land by force in the 7th century A.D., the Jews were there to greet them, as was a relatively new Jewish sect whose members accepted Christ as their savior. Gary Pepe, Redding, California...
...different from those between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico, for instance? Hamad also took issue with the Israeli security wall but failed to mention that it was put in place to stop suicide bombers from crossing and snipers from shooting at apartments in the southern part of Jerusalem. When I was stationed in Bethlehem in the mid-1980s, the Christian population was thriving, and tourists arrived by the busload throughout the year, not just at Christmastime. One needs to ask what the difference is between then...
...other stops on Bush's Middle East wing, Israel is considered comparatively safe. The Israeli police, well-experienced in dealing with suicide bombers, are unmatched in the world when it comes to security. More than 4,000 Israeli police and soldiers stopped traffic and cordoned off chunks of Jerusalem whenever the U.S. President drove through...
...safest way would have been for Bush to fly on one of two U.S. Chinook helicopters to cover the short distance from Jerusalem to the Palestinian headquarters of President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. But fog rolled into the Judean hills on Thursday, grounding the Chinooks. Instead, Bush set off by road in his serpentine 45-car motorcade riding in one of many identical bomb-proof limousines. The convoy sped by refugee camps and bounced over potholed roads to Abbas's compound. Meanwhile, a senior Israeli police official told TIME that Israel Special Forces and an emergency medical team were...