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...that anyone is even contemplating the possibility of packing up and leaving as a result of a land-peace swap with Syria. Nowhere is that more clear than in the town of Avneitan, home to some 23 families forcibly evacuated by the Israeli government from settlements in the Gaza strip in 2005. These Orthodox families believe that Jews have a divine mandate to live not just within the current borders of the Jewish state but on all the territory surrounding it that they consider part of the Biblical Land of Israel. The government dumped them in a hotel here after...
...public attempt at suicide in the streets.' MAHMOUD DARWISH, preeminent Palestinian poet, describing the fighting between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Darwish was speaking in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, his first public engagement in the city of his birth in over 30 years...
...year he unveiled his version of the Clinton Memorial at a Renaissance workshop, with Hillary Clinton sitting in the front row: a statue of an unzipped zipper. Doug reveled and rebelled in his Southernness. He wrote a novel about his grandmother, a textile-union militant. He called his comic strip Kudzu, because he loved the twisted symbolism of that vine. He was enthralled by irony, and I wish Doug were around to reflect on the gothic ridiculousness of his own death, at age 57, on a back road in Mississippi, in a collision with a loblolly pine that...
...weeks patrolling Lebanon's southern border with Israel. Now he regularly enrolls for refresher training courses in the Bekaa. The training camps are hidden in remote wooded areas, with no permanent structures to give away their presence to Israeli jets and drones overhead. The fighters are taught how to strip, handle and shoot weapons, plant roadside bombs, navigate using a compass or stars, conduct surveillance and stage ambushes. They conclude with written and practical exams. Salem says he hopes soon to enlist in Hizballah's special-forces unit. "We're getting ready for another war with Israel," he says...
...President's "surge" plan by Republican Senators Richard Lugar and John Warner as evidence of a splintering opposition party, SHE PLANS TO hold one vote each week in July on the war, including a second run at a timeline for withdrawal and a bipartisan measure that would strip Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq. The idea is that if more and more Republicans are forced to turn against the President, Democrats will eventually have the votes to force Bush into a timeline for withdrawal...