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...Intifadeh Report Israeli and Palestinian leaders were considering their responses to a report by a U.S.-led commission investigating the violence that began last September. The report will not be made public until both sides have responded, but Palestinian officials said it recommended that Israel halt the expansion of Jewish settlements. The panel, led by former Senator George Mitchell, did not apportion blame for igniting the conflict or ask for an international force to be sent to the region. Reports said the commission called for a cease-fire agreement and the resumption of security cooperation between the two sides...
...restore security. But while the measures get tougher, the security menace to daily life in Israel and particularly on its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza shows little sign of abating. A low-key state of war is once again becoming a way of life for the Jewish State, and that may take a heavy toll on its morale after the optimism...
...Best-known of the photos is a series of some 20,000 Frank took around the U.S. on a Guggenheim grant. This view of the 1950s through the eyes of a Jewish immigrant punched many black-and-white holes in the American Dream. One example in the exhibition is some boys outside a Mississippi school in 1955. Frank provides their words on seeing him take their picture: "He must be a communist - he looks like one. Why don't you go to the other side of town and watch the niggers play...
...years, the stone tablet stood on the outskirts of Jedwabne, a memorial to the former Jewish residents of the small Polish town who were killed by the Nazis in World War II. But the memorial was a lie. On a July day in 1941, 1,600 Jews were murdered in Jedwabne in a swift, brutal and barbaric pogrom. Some were clubbed to death, others drowned; the head of one young Jewish girl was cut off and kicked. Mothers were beaten to death with their babies in their arms. As darkness fell, 1,500 Jews were forced into a barn, which...
...sources in both organizations tell TIME, Hizballah's backers in the Iranian government have called them together to patch up their dispute and focus them on the jihad against the Jewish state. The Iranians, who have kept Hamas at arm's length until now, hope that by bringing the two together again, they can pool their operations and exert even more deadly pressure on Israel. If the Iranians get their way, it will be a dark day both for Israelis--who will face increasingly professional terrorist attacks--and for Palestinians already suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash. Competition between...