Word: kalkilya
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...oldsters and the new generation. "This new movement is another door to our country," says Saadeh, 45. "I don't watch the news. I don't keep an eye on Hamas or [Palestinian President] Abu Mazen." But Hamas keeps an eye on the artists. The Hamas-run municipality in Kalkilya, a West Bank town, banned a poetry and dance festival in July because men and women wouldn't be separated. A mural commissioned for a public park in Nablus was barred by the city engineer because it "constituted idol worship and is not allowed in Islam." And sometimes the conflicts...
...chief Jibril Rajoub agreed to keep order in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood in return for Israel's pulling out troops and tanks. Last week--just days before Israelis killed a leading Hamas military leader suspected of terrorism--Ben-Eliezer oversaw similar deals in the Palestinian cities of Tulkarem and Kalkilya...
...case, since the chain has eschewed beef there out of respect for Hindu dietary customs. And only weeks before the latest intifada began, the Palestinian Authority was trying to interest Mickey D's in setting up shop in a series of malls planned for such latter-day hotspots as Kalkilya, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Ramallah...