Word: settlements
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...bullet holes which surrounds several portions of the city’s outskirts. The second is that Gilo is considered by the United Nations (UN), the vast majority of Palestinians, and human rights advocates across the globe to be stolen land. It, they say, is a “settlement...
...while Israel will demand security actions by the Palestinian Authority against the militants - which means Abbas may find himself serving simply as the interlocutor between Hamas and Olmert in the event of any talks, or promising things he's unable to deliver. Unable to secure Israeli movement toward a settlement based on the Arab League's Beirut principles, he may be hoping that Israel would at least release the hundreds of millions of dollars of PA revenue it is currently holding. But the Israeli leadership may be inclined to use the status of those funds as leverage over Hamas...
...moderates pushing for a peaceful settlement, the King complained, have been "neutralized" because of the stagnation in Arab-Israeli negotiations. "I don't think people are taking us seriously," he said. "A lot of the moderate countries are feeling isolated. Today the street is saying, 'You know, we tried the peace process. We keep hoping that the Americans and the international community will step forward, we keep hoping that Israel will make a difference and reach out to the Arabs. They are only beginning to see that the only way you can get America's attention or Israel's attention...
...camp is burning in slow motion. While scant food supplies are a big problem at this hastily-built settlement at Anaka, a 2-km-square mess of tightly packed huts protected by government soldiers in the north of Uganda, a bigger one is spontaneous combustion. Here, [an error occurred while processing this directive] explains a leader in the camp, where some 23,000 people displaced by the region's civil war make their homes, at least one thatched hut ignites every day. So many are burning, in fact, that most residents remove their belongings when they leave each morning...
...such goodies as a four-night $25,000 Hawaiian vacation and $7,000 worth of Victoria Secret undies. In total, unreported gift bags cost the IRS an estimated $1.2 million in lost tax revenue. Today the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which produces the Academy Awards, announced a settlement in which taxes on the gift bags given out in March of this year are the responsibility of the recipient. But as of next year, the Academy board has voted to discontinue them altogether...