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Israel, Then and Now Thank you for your article "The First 60 Years" [May 5]. I cannot join those who will be celebrating Israel's 60th birthday and its accomplishments since May 14, 1948. Like many Israelis and Palestinians, I have pressing concerns about Israel's future, stability and security, and whether there are prospects for peaceful coexistence for Palestinians and Israelis. I believe there are, but not until there is meaningful resolution on the issues of the dispossession of Palestinian property and the dislocation of Palestinians after independence. I am also worried that they have no right of return...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was discussing terrorism with Ehud Barak, Wednesday, when an aide rushed in to inform the Israeli Defense Minister that Palestinian militants had just fired a rocket from Gaza into a woman's clinic located in a large shopping mall in the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon. "Let's go down there together," Barak told Rice, according to an Israeli source. "I want you to see with your own eyes what we're going through...
Sixty years since its birth, Israel still lives in peril and without peace. Israelis worry about the threat of a nuclear attack from Iran. They worry that Hizballah will pepper them with more missiles launched from southern Lebanon and that Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza will inevitably land in a crowded Negev school yard. And they worry that Palestinian suicide bombers will once again explode in the buses and cafès of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "We used to think that every year we survived was a miracle, a gift," an Israeli friend confides gloomily, "but now all I think...
...North Korea on a path to freezing its nuclear program in 1994 but later that year inked an unofficial cease-fire with Bosnian Serbs months before they slaughtered 8,000 Muslim civilians at Srebrenica. Now Carter has riled the Bush Administration by talking to leaders of the militant Palestinian group Hamas in Syria...
President Bush is trying belatedly to move an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal forward, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the U.S. asked Carter not to engage with Hamas' leaders because they support Israel's destruction. But critics say peace without Hamas could prove difficult, thanks to the parliamentary majority it won in January 2006. "I'm a free citizen," says Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Peace, "and I decided that somebody should talk to Hamas...