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Hope in the West Bank Thank you for Joe Klein's article "West Bank Renewal" [March 8]. The West Bank and Gaza provide a study in contrasts. In the West Bank, where Palestinians made a commitment to peaceful coexistence, Israel has removed checkpoints, increased trade and invested in local businesses. In Gaza, where Hamas continues to threaten violence, the economy remains in ruins. Joel Margolis, HERNDON...
...Hope in the West Bank Thank you for Joe Klein's article "West Bank Renewal" [March 8]. The West Bank and Gaza provide a study in contrasts. In the West Bank, where Palestinians made a commitment to peaceful coexistence, Israel has removed checkpoints, increased trade and invested in local businesses. In Gaza, where Hamas continues to threaten violence, the economy remains in ruins. Joel Margolis Herndon...
...political talk programming until regional elections are held on March 28, citing a need to maintain its political balance. This time, Santoro decided that his show, Annozero, would go on. He filmed a live version of his program Thursday that was streamed online and broadcast through local and satellite television feeds. "For us, the most important thing is that people watch," says Santoro. (See pictures of Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...
...president's sagging popularity. They point to a stalled but soon-to-be-reopened Supreme Court case that accuses intelligence agencies of using the "war on terror" as a pretext to secretly detain thousands of citizens suspected of links to Baluchi separatists and other radical groups. The local Dawn newspaper reported last month that Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal said that the court "would not like to create the impression that it was out to destroy or tarnish the image of intelligence agencies" with regard to these cases...
HUCTW members were joined by Service Employees International Union Local 615 members, and college students from the Student Labor Action Movement...