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...ranks. As Pullo, who titles himself General Officer Commanding, mend Camp Five, says: "God has given us everything in the Delta: water, fish, oil. And yet we are suffering. That is our cross." mend recently issued a press release vowing a new campaign of "attacks against creek- and land-based installations around the Delta. Car bombs will be freely utilized. We will share our pain with all Nigerians." Since the election, mend has kidnapped a score of foreign oil workers and launched several bomb attacks. In an interview with Time, Yar'Adua acknowledged the seriousness of the Delta's security...
...Palestinian identity. A people torn away from the Jordanians and Egyptians, under whose suzerainty they had been living, the Palestinians forged nationalism out of anger and searing loss. And gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book on the war, "hastened the downfall of Arab secularism and opened the doors...
...value education, and they laugh at the same jokes. But in conversation with Omar, I realize that Jews and Arabs are fatally alike in another way: they both suffer from a powerful and justifiable sense of victimization--the Jews over the Holocaust, the Palestinians over the loss of their land--and this blinds them to the others' tragedy...
...photo of Arafat shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; he thinks Arafat gave away too much to the Israelis, as do many Palestinians still holding keys to their families' old houses. (Israel has never accepted that all Palestinian refugees have the right of return to their former land, since such a right would constitute an existential threat: if all Palestinians returned to what is now Israel, Jews would soon be a minority in their own state.) Was there ever a moment when Omar thought peace was attainable? "Never," he says flatly...
...want peace with the Jews," says Omar, "but we want to go back to our land." It's the same thought his uncle had in 1967, listening to Egyptian radio, and it has as much chance of happening now as it did then. Forty years after their great disappointment, those who live in the Jalazon refugee camp know that it may be the only home that they, their children and their grandchildren ever know. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...