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...Brooklyn to Lorenzo Locklair Parsons and the former Isabelle Judd; he was one of five children. Parsons was raised in South Ozone Park, Queens, where he watched Fourth of July fireworks provided by the Gotti crime family and once nearly blew up a friend's house trying to make rocket fuel on the stove. His mother still lives in Queens, and he regularly escorts her to lunch...
...Israeli government claims that the military operations in Gaza are a last resort to stop rocket attacks by Hamas and that all alternatives have been investigated. What about this: giving Palestinians a state and a future? It would only cost some land. Do Israelis value land more than hundreds of Palestinians' lives? Being strong does not mean winning wars but achieving peace. Is the Jewish state really as strong as it is depicted? Mohamed Kebaili, PARIS...
...quixotic, being a peace activist in Sderot, an Israeli town that has borne the brunt of rocket attacks from Gaza. When Israeli air strikes on Gaza began last month, hundreds of people from Sderot swarmed to a vantage point known as Horseman's Hill to watch the fiery spectacle and cheer. Nomika Zion was not among them. "I listened to one of my neighbors telling Israeli TV that the sound of the bombing was like a symphony, that he's never heard such powerful music before," she says. "And I was thinking, How many people are dying because of that...
...that was enough to make Israeli peace activists doubt their mission. But worse was to come. In 2005, just after the last Israeli soldier left Gaza - which Israel had occupied since 1967 - a Palestinian rocket arced its way from the territory into Israel, and thousands more followed. Israeli leftists had always believed in "land for peace" - the idea that if Palestinians had the real estate on which to create a viable nation, they would learn to live side by side with Israel. But as Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, says, "In the end, we didn...
Back in Sderot, Zion still doesn't dare go too far from her bunker, which she has converted into a cozy study, decorated with drawings from Sderot's children. The cease-fire in Gaza could end any moment, and rockets could crash down again. "I've got five seconds, maybe less, to reach my bunker before a rocket hits," says Zion. "Enough with this music of vengeance...