Word: lande
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...from a plot to slaughter them, a man entered one of the cafes and detonated himself, killing three Israelis and injuring at least 47 more. A six-month-old girl, her tiny, blood-soaked body cradled in a policewoman's arms, added one more horrific image to the Holy Land's chronicle of tragedies. Violence erupted again the next day, as hundreds of Palestinians rioted in Hebron, and Israeli soldiers responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition...
...Aviv cannot help raising questions about whether his way is working. When reporters standing amid the cafe wreckage suggested Har Homa had contributed to the bloodshed, Netanyahu bristled, "Nothing justifies terrorism." He is surely right about that, and there is an incalculable moral difference between building on disputed land and setting off a bomb in a cafe. But violence is the only real lever the Palestinians have in their conflict with the Israelis, so scenes like that in Tel Aviv are certain to be repeated...
What brought Netanyahu his worst grief, though, was his own divided feelings. From the moment he took office, he has ricocheted between the irreconcilable demands of his ideology and his ambition. He has always damned the basic principle of exchanging land for peace. But he is just as eager to succeed--to win power, to stay in power, to earn history's regard--and he has been savvy enough to recognize there is no going back. Peace is what a majority of Israel's voters want, and a Prime Minister wishing to stay in office had better deliver...
...week later, Palestinians were stung again when Netanyahu announced that Israel would fulfill its obligation to make another partial pullback from the West Bank but would vacate just 9% of the land still under occupation--of which only 2% was not already under shared Israeli-Palestinian authority. Israeli nationalists were up in arms again at the "giveaway," while Palestinians had expected to retrieve at least 20% or 30% of the West Bank. Arafat was so enraged that he rejected the handover and refused to take any calls from Netanyahu...
...traveling to small towns throughout the West. In the 1970s, the UFO cult gained much notoriety around the country. The cult's ranks reached about a thousand members, as hundreds of people were persuaded to leave behind their belongings and families and prepare for a UFO trip to the land of God. Members lived by new rules: no drinking, sex or contact with family or friends. Some even chose to be castrated. (Law enforcement officials in California reported Friday that about six of the males who committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe, including Applewhite, had been surgically castrated some time...