Word: nablus
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Abraham's life becomes very eventful. He travels to Egypt and back and alights inCanaanite towns that may correspond topresent-day Nablus, Hebron and Jerusalem. He grows rich, distinguishing himself sometimes as a warrior king and sometimes as an arch-diplomat. At one point, three strangers appear at his tent. A model of Middle Eastern hospitality, he lays out a feast. They turn out to be divine messengers bearing word that God intends to destroy Sodom, where his nephew Lot lives. Abraham initiates an extraordinary haggling session, persuading the Lord to spare Sodom if 10 righteous people can be found...
...little girl with a dirt-smeared face shuffles barefoot in the muddy courtyard. The women of the Zakari family lean out of their window, an Ottoman arch whose grey stone is pitted by the weather of 250 years. The place was built for one of the richest families in Nablus. Now it serves as rented accommodation for the city's poorest, hidden in the heart of the Casbah. "It's not a palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant for a single household. "Do you think they...
When the Israelis came to the Abdel Hadi Palace in one of their recent forays into the Casbah in search of militants, they took away Zakari's son Khalil, 21. Now standing by the pomegranate tree, Khalil tells how he was detained two days in a camp outside Nablus with most of the other young men of the Casbah, huddling without shelter. He says he was beaten when he refused to recite a crude rhyme that professed love for Israeli troops and cursed the genitalia of Palestinian mothers. He finally recited it to avoid being hit again. Weeks later...
...places in which Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs still mixed, and students had felt safe there. Hamas said the attack was revenge for the assassination of one of its leaders, and the deaths of 14 other people, in Gaza. In response, Israel sent tanks and troops into Nablus...
...With the political and diplomatic processes stalled, the deteriorating economic situation on both sides of the divide may begin to play a greater role in pressing the political leadership toward some form of solution. Palestinians in Nablus this week took to heart President Bush's injunction that they develop a market economy, and opened their vegetable market for three days in defiance of the Israeli curfew. This necessity-driven act of civil disobedience underscores the view of a growing number of Palestinian intellectuals that terror tactics harm their cause and that non-violent resistance to occupation is their best...