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...Palestinians really believed the cease-fire declared by Islamic militants two months ago would hold. But that hardly mitigated the shock at the brutality that ripped it apart last week. On Tuesday night a suicide bomber blew himself up aboard Bus No. 2 as it carried many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families home from prayers at Jerusalem's sacred Western Wall. A bomb laced with ball bearings killed 20, wounded 100 and left searing images of tiny corpses on stretchers, screaming toddlers with scorched faces and hysterical parents. Six of the dead were children under 16. MARTYRS! REVENGE! shouted newspaper headlines...
...outraged Palestinians in all factions and threatened to carry the violence to a terrible new level. A senior Israeli military official retorted that all Hamas leaders are equally at risk: "We don't distinguish between military and political levels in Hamas." Meanwhile, Hamas leaders went underground after calling for "Jewish blood to flood in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa." Alas, there is no road map for where that kind of talk can lead. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Jamil Hamad/Amman and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
Months before its release, Gibson's movie, starring James Caviezel as Jesus, has stoked an incendiary debate on issues both fundamental and touchy: artistic freedom vs. historical accuracy, Catholic traditionalism vs. Jewish sensibilities. Often these issues clash within the combatants, as Jewish rabbis and writers, by nature defenders of the First Amendment, now call for Gibson to edit his film to their wishes--and Jewish movie people defend a project that has outraged their brethren...
...million Palestinians who lived there a number (that has swelled to 3 million today). Although the territories fell within the Biblical Land of Israel, they were not annexed for the simple reason that to do so would have meant making those Palestinians voting citizens of Israel - Israel?s Jewish population is 5 million, and the combined voting strength of the 1 million Israeli Arabs and the 3 million West Bank and Gaza Palestinians would give the country an Arab majority within the next two decades...
...contrast, has traditionally been the elimination of the State of Israel. As the national movement representing the displaced Arab population of pre-1948 Palestine, the founding Charter of the PLO speaks of British mandate Palestine as an "indivisible unit" which must be restored to its original owners, dismissing Jewish and Zionist claims on the land and allowing only that those Jews who lived in Palestine "before the Zionist invasion" would be allowed to remain. Although that document was later modified (in a meeting hastily convened under pressure from the Clinton White House) in keeping with the pursuit...