Word: ramallah
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...Reveling in his newfound freedom, Yasser Arafat has allowed his imagination to run wild. The West Bank city of Jenin, he told journalists while surveying the ruins of Ramallah, would henceforth be known by Palestinians as "Jeningrad" (in reference to the epic World War II battle of Stalingrad in which more than 1 million people died). Perhaps he simply wanted to underscore that his sense of humor had survived the Israeli siege...
...resolving the Ramallah standoff was the insertion of a few British and American prison warders, and many diplomats and Palestinian officials want that to serve as a model for achieving a broader truce by sending some form of international force to the West Bank. The Israelis remain resolutely opposed and so far the Bush administration is inclined to agree with them. Still, international pressure is likely to mount, particularly in the fallout from the collapse of the U.N. mission to investigate the battle of Jenin...
...Although the Bush administration has endorsed the U.N. fact-finding mission, it urged the international body on Monday to consider Israel's objections - a political bone thrown, says the Israeli media (see below) in exchange for Sharon's compliance with the Ramallah deal. But Arab and European skeptics point out that Washington responds differently when the man seeking to limit the terms of U.N. inquiry, is Saddam Hussein...
...suicide bombing to stop. The Israeli government announced that it would seize parts of Palestinian Authority territory and hold them as long as attacks continue. Dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships stormed the West Bank towns of Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus. Troops entered Ramallah and Bethlehem, while helicopters .red on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian gunman killed five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international...
Yasser Arafat looked as if he couldn't believe his bulging eyes. Inspecting the damage to his living quarters caused by the latest Israeli assault on his Ramallah headquarters last week, the Palestinian leader checked out the new window in his bathroom, courtesy of Israeli firepower; a broken mirror hanging above a photograph of him with his daughter, now 6 years old; the scattering of debris covering his exercise bike and bed. "I was supposed to sleep here last night, but I had some work downstairs. Everybody knows this is my bedroom," he told reporters, suggesting that the Israeli troops...