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...armed with the only information we have available,” he said. “So many things were going through our minds, apart from people living in New York. We were concerned with how it affects Muslim students and the possibility of backlash against them, [and] for Jewish students and the backlash against them...
...suicide bombing attacks inside Israel. Based in the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas opposes Yasser Arafat and the peace process, but it is not known to have mounted attacks outside of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Thus far, Israeli security officials believe that despite their animosity to the Jewish State, Osama Bin Laden's forces have not for the most part directly targeted Israel...
...reflects the college's Baptist background--a student called a shepherd, whose role is spiritual guidance. That guidance can mean helping freshmen study for midterms or praying with them. Jewell's campus is ecumenical--no religion courses or pledge of faith is required, and the student-senate leader is Jewish--but the school's Christian focus is evident. You're more apt to see young people praying over their dinners in the dining hall than you might at a state school, and classroom discussions can get heated when biology majors are also fierce creationists. Jewell is also 90% white, with...
...Beit Jala Incursion Israeli troops and tanks pulled back from the Palestinian-administered town of Beit Jala after a two-day occupation that drew sharp international criticism. The European Union said it brokered the withdrawal in return for a commitment by Palestinians to stop gunmen firing at the nearby Jewish settlement of Gilo. But Israel was on alert for possible attacks to avenge the killing earlier in the week of Abu Ali Mustafa, the highest-ranking victim of Israel's assassination policy since the current intifadeh began...
...Sharon imagines any Palestinian leader could accept such "armistice" terms is anybody's guess. After all, the 1949 armistice was simply a case of four neighboring states having to accept the failure of their invasion of the nascent Jewish state. There is simply no conceivable incentive for the Palestinians living under the current terms of occupation to refrain from fighting - Barak, when asked on the campaign trail in 1999 what he would have done if he'd been born Palestinian, answered "I would, at some stage, get involved in one of the terror organizations and join the struggle," adding that...