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...Israel extract itself from a no-win situation. At no added cost, the U.S. could help by diverting a fraction of the $1.8 billion in annual aid to Israel from military expenditures toward implementing a peaceful withdrawal. First, the Israeli government should remove the economic inducements currently enticing new Jewish settlers to move into Palestinian territories. If 53 percent of settlers moved into the West Bank for non-ideological reasons such as cheap housing, interest-free loans and income tax rebates, then at the right price, they would move out. More than 30 percent already have said they would...
...they turn away from war, of course. Why not? What do we have against the Jewish people? They are part of our world...
FRANCE Synagogue Arson A series of attacks on Jewish places of worship, cemeteries and shops in France and Belgium was blamed on the worsening Middle East crisis. After a firebomb attack on a Marseilles synagogue, similar assaults were made in Lyons and Montpellier. Near Strasbourg, a bomb was found in a cemetery where arsonists had earlier damaged a pavilion. In the Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, synagogues were also attacked. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin warned that the "passions that flare up in the Middle East must not flare up" in France, home to 4 million Muslims and around...
...threat. "It's something to be concerned about," says a U.S. intelligence official. So far, there's little sign that it's in the interest of Palestinian bombers to attack Americans. While many Palestinians believe that U.S. support for Israel makes America complicit in what they see as the Jewish state's excesses, Palestinian militant leaders apparently believe that targeting Americans would hurt their cause. It would mean losing the moral stance of fighting against occupation and do nothing to further their stated goal of wresting political concessions from an Israel made desperate by internal insecurity. For now, the policy...
...family, Shelley said, who works in a factory in Ohio: “I think he follows NASCAR racing and is definitely not Harvard material.” It was at this point that I learned that Shelley was named after an English poet and is not Jewish (contrary to what many people assume, according to her), clinching the fact that we are not related...