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...reports that Netanyahu wants to enlarge the area of Hebron under Israeli control and reduce the number of Palestinian security troops in the city of 94,000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers. "Netanyahu can't make these changes unilaterally," Silver says. "Palestinians are extremely reluctant to yield any more land or leverage in Hebron to the Israeli army and settlers." Hebron is the last West Bank city under Israeli control, and the only place in the West Bank where Jews and Arabs live in such proximity. The redeployment is seen as a test of Netanyahu's commitment to the Oslo...
...size of the event, however, Coffey said he is trying to land a major act such as Tori Amos or Bob Dylan...
...1950s, children of both races played and ate together, and Kossuth achieved legal integration without the horrible spasms that wrenched most of the South. It was always a point of pride to Linda Lambert, the wife of Kossuth's mayor, that 109 years ago her ancestors donated the land on which black ex-sharecroppers built the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church--a big, beautiful edifice that housed a $10,000 baby-grand piano, the congregation's pride...
...June 10] is that it lets people make a choice; the bad thing is that their choice may very well be the worst possible one. Many of the people who voted for Netanyahu hope that maybe this hard-line perennial Zionist can make peace with the Arabs without any land concessions. Netanyahu is more of a seasoned politician than a war hero. He promised the people everything they wanted to hear, and he fed the public's hunger for assurance of its territorial security. But history will prove that the Jewish people, as well as the Arabs, were conned...
Your drought story reminded me of the Dust Bowl days when as a farm boy I rented shares on my uncle's land and planted soybeans three times to get something to feed eight dairy cows. As the sun was darkened by clouds of dust from the west, many of us gradually began to realize that nature and man had drifted apart. M. EARL BOYER Freeport, Illinois...