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...first ever public show of Gazan antiquities. Its 530 artifacts, drawn chiefly from the vaults of private Palestinian collector Jawdat Khoudary and the Palestinian National Authority, depict a Gaza that was once at the nexus of trade routes and a meeting point of cultures. Today, at a time when rival Palestinian factions are gunning each other down, we learn that Gaza's early inhabitants were prosperous, practiced multiculturalists. On show are objects from several empires unearthed during the past two centuries, with some dating back nearly 5,000 years. Egyptian stone scarabs are displayed alongside Greek statues, Byzantine mosaics, Syrian...
...Israel's strategy of targeting only Hamas may actually help the Islamists in their feud with Fatah. After the latest round of selective air strikes, even moderate Palestinians in Gaza are coming around to the Hamas view that their rival Fatah will do anything to regain power, even collude with the enemy Israel. But in the meantime, Hamas commanders are staying off their cellphones...
...Elsewhere, across the north of the country, rival Sikh groups clashed for the fourth straight day after the leader of one sect dressed, for a newspaper advertisement, in a fashion similar to the much adored 17th century Sikh figure Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru. Enraged Sikhs from other sects attacked properties belonging to the Dera Sacha Sauda, whose leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh had committed the perceived religious insult. The clashes have killed two people and injured at least 30, and the national government has sent in troops to stop further unrest. "The sect chief has committed...
...government, Kouchner has repeatedly angered fellow Socialists since leaving office by criticizing the party's resistance to change and infighting among its leaders. Later, Kouchner did something even more blasphemous: he failed to condemn the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Although the leftist politicians were enraged, Kouchner continued to rival even Sarkozy in the nation's popularity polls...
...Nationalism, based on the Orthodox faith, has been emerging as the Putin regime's major ideological resource. Thursday's rite sealed the four-year long effort by Putin, beginning in September 2003, to have the Moscow Patriarchate take over its rival American-based cousin and launch a new globalized Church as his state's main ideological arm and a vital foreign policy instrument. In February press conference, Putin equated Russia's "traditional confessions" to its nuclear shield, both, he said, being "components that strengthen Russian statehood and create necessary preconditions for internal and external security of the country." Professor Sergei...