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...quick action and perhaps Friedman's poor shooting, the harm was less than it could have been. Friedman got off 20 rounds, wounding six people but killing none. Still, the episode frayed the city's nerves, reminding residents of the 1994 massacre of 29 Muslim worshippers by a Jewish fanatic...
...host to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the supposed resting place of Abraham, who is central to both religions, and of his family. Attracted by the site, some 400 Israeli settlers, mostly religious extremists, live in enclaves amid Hebron's 100,000 Arabs. Mindful of a 1929 pogrom against Jewish Hebronites, the settlers fear that Palestinian self-rule will lead to their slaughter. Friedman, an Orthodox Jew from a settlement near Jerusalem, said he acted to stop any Israeli retreat in Hebron. Pumping his fist and grinning in triumph at reporters after his arrest, he repeated the nationalist chant "Hebron...
...then it was Arafat's turn to foot-drag. He withheld instructions to close, fearing that a Hebron agreement would lift international pressure on Israel and free Netanyahu to accelerate building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank as well as slow action to fulfill Israel's commitment to expand Palestinian autonomy further. Netanyahu fanned Palestinian concern about the settlements when his government on Dec. 13 restored to those communities large public subsidies that had been revoked by the previous government...
That move provoked a strong reaction from Bill Clinton, generally seen in Israel as the most sympathetic of U.S. Presidents. For the first time, Clinton characterized the Jewish settlements as an "obstacle to peace," using terminology from the Reagan and Bush years that his Administration had dropped. For Netanyahu, says a senior State Department official, "it was a very strong wake-up call." Concerned that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would peter out, or that violence would again erupt, Clinton dispatched Dennis Ross, the State Department's special Middle East coordinator, to Jerusalem with a mission to hammer away until Hebron...
...family relationship with putting him on the road to academic fulfillment.“My older siblings helped me, and I helped my younger siblings. My parents inspired more than helped,” he said. His sister Darnetta Clinkscale, who heads the medical department of Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, says that although their family “was one of material scarcity, it was one with a lot of love.”A native of Phillips County, Ark., Evans says the process often was not easy, but those problems did not prevent him from achieving academic...