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...importance of statistics in science, and the day before was a lesson from the Koran. Today three girls talked to their classmates about a woman in Gaza and her four children, all of whom had been killed when their donkey cart rolled over an Israeli mine near an Israeli settlement in the dunes south of Gaza City. Qawasmeh knew she had to help her 735 elementary and high school students understand. "Nobody is excluded, even a mother and her children," Qawasmeh told the assembly through the polyester veil that covers her nose and mouth. "We have to bear the situation...
Most Israelis have shifted their political views rightward during the recent violence, and many have concluded that the Palestinians will never make peace with Israel. Seideman still maintains her conviction that a negotiated settlement is the only way to ensure the safety of her children. "We all know the solution is political, not military," she says. But for now it seems to Seideman that the Palestinians--even the liberal ones who built ties with Israelis--keep insisting on concessions without being prepared to compromise themselves. "I'm trying not to feel hatred, and I see that they are so desperate...
...funeral cortege drove north toward the Israeli settlement of Itamar to bury a resident killed by Palestinian gunmen in an ambush. Nitza Tzameret was in the third car in the procession, behind an army-jeep escort. When the vehicles approached the Palestinian village of Kafr Khalil, shots rang out. The cars halted, and the terrified mourners poured out. Tzameret and her husband lay in a ditch at the roadside as Israeli soldiers returned fire up into the olive groves. The gun battle lasted 30 minutes. Since then Tzameret has slept no more than two hours a night, fearing intruders...
While Schwartzman would not comment on the specific terms of the settlement, she told the Associated Press that the package included a financial settlement...
...that Ariel Sharon is a "man of peace," but the Israeli leader has made clear in recent days that his idea of peace is not one compatible with that of even the most moderate of Palestinian and Arab interlocutors. Sharon told his cabinet Sunday that not a single Israeli settlement in the occupied territories would be uprooted as long as he was prime minister. That would likely nix any prospect of serious political negotiations with the Palestinians or their Arab neighbors, who maintain that the basic requirement for peace involves Israel withdrawing to something approximating its 1967 borders. That...