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...Israeli-occupied West Bank. "In spirit and blood we sacrifice you," murmured one of the 250 onlookers, as others shouted, "Palestine is Arab!" The ceremony was a mock funeral for Jihad Ibrahim Badr, 16, one of the two Palestinians killed during the Easter morning shooting on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Both Badr and the other victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath the eastern wall of the Old City that is devoted to the Muslim victims of the 1936 Arab uprising against the British and of the 1948 Arab-Israeli...
...overt political themes of the Bible--what the Latin American theologians term God's "option for the oppressed"--is but one dimension of the radical message inherent in the Gospels, however. Even more, it is the disturbing, moving words of the Sermon on the Mount. "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." (Matthew 5:441) that suggest a change in lifestyle and commitment more revolutionary than anything Mark ever imagined...
...then ran toward the Dome of the Rock, one of the two main mosques on the Temple Mount. The rock, at the center of the shrine, is the traditional site where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the place from which, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on a horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered...
Israeli officials were not immediately certain whether Goodman, an American-born Jew and a recent immigrant to Israel, represented anybody but himself. For the 15 years of Israeli rule over East Jerusalem, the precise status of the Temple Mount has been a matter of concern to ultranationalist Israeli groups. Within the past five years, the cause has been taken up by a generation of zealous young Israelis, the same factions that have helped build Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Last month, for example, a 22-year-old Israeli who lived in one of the illegal settlements in the northern...
...Reagan criticizes the press, he often disarmingly takes it right back ("a little momentary frustration or misunderstanding, but that's all it is"). As his popularity has fallen-it is the lowest at this point in his term of any President since Truman-Republicans have urged him to mount a diversionary attack on the press and find a Spiro Agnew to do the dirty work. That is not Reagan style. Besides, he likes to describe himself as "a former reporter, columnist and commentator myself " and thus knows the tricks of the trade. To Voice of America employees not long...