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Brandeis Professor of Law Gary Bellow died of a heart attack Thursday afternoon at Mount Auburn Hospital, closing a life of progressive legal advocacy and education...
...significant concessions. He hinted at acquiescing to Syria's incessant demand that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights down to the June 4, 1967 borders by asserting that previous Israeli prime ministers have conceded the same. Now Barak ponders dropping the demand for a continued Israeli presence on the Mount Hermon early warning station, a flashpoint issue with the Syrians. Mount Hermon--the eyes and ears of Israeli intelligence gathering--was declared "just a mountain" by a senior Israeli intelligence official just three weeks ago. Assad observes that souring the average Israeli's opinion on peace motivates Barak...
...Pope's visit to Jordan, where he gazed west out over the Promised Land from Mount Nebo, just as the Bible says Moses did some 3,200 years earlier, was blessedly free of political stress, since King Abdullah took up his late father's role as regional conciliator. Within minutes after John Paul's jet touched down on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, however, the band struck up Jerusalem of Gold, an anthem of Jewish attachment to the entire disputed city, whose eastern portion Palestinians want for their future capital. Israeli President Ezer Weizman, acting more...
...Holy Land's distressing riddles. But by that evening the region once more manifested its ability to humble even the most high-minded and surefooted. For months John Paul had been anticipating a grand interfaith meeting between himself and Jewish and Muslim leaders. Originally he planned it for Mount Sinai, but the location was dropped as logistically difficult. Then Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Ekrema Sabri, the chief Muslim leader in the Palestinian territories, declined to meet with the rabbis, whom he accuses of making "anti-Muslim remarks." To provide a stand-in, Arafat promoted religious judge Sheik Taysir Tamimi from...
...enjoyed a moment of triumph on Friday when, on the mountain where Jesus was said to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount, he celebrated Mass for 80,000 mostly youthful believers. They were from around the world, but a sizable number were Lebanese, and parts of the Mass were in Arabic. Said Wadie Abu-Nassar, director of the Great Jubilee Office in Jerusalem: "Since the time of Jesus, no one has ever managed to bring a crowd like this together in a peaceful way. When crowds like this have gathered in the past it was normally...