Word: tulkarm
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...ambiguity of Hamas's new position was brought home to me during my commute on Wednesday, when I stopped into an old Brooklyn haunt where the man behind the counter is an exile from Tulkarm who makes no secret of his enthusiasm for Hamas and his loathing for the idea of a two-state solution. I expected to find him jubilant, but instead he was visibly glum as he sat watching al-Jazeera commentary on the election results. "Terrible," he sighed. "This is terrible. It means the end of Hamas." In the sense that he meant it, all I could...
...curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority issued its now standard denunciation of attacks on Israeli civilians. But the Israeli public knows that the PA is no longer the relevant security authority in hotbeds of militancy such as Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jenin. The reoccupation of Palestinian cities that started three weeks ago with "Operation Determined Path" signaled that Israel had taken the security situation on the West Bank into its own hands for the immediate future...
Other publications did not exercise such restraint. This esteemed paper did not ease the flow of virulently anti-Palestinian articles and images in its editorial pages: while Israeli soldiers were besieging Ramallah, Qaluilya, Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Jenin, The Crimson published a cartoon of a vicious serpent besieging a Herculean Israel (April...
...would withdraw from most West Bank cities except Ramallah and Bethlehem by the end of this week. But what the Israeli leader means by withdrawal is unlikely to be enough to coax the Palestinians into a truce - Israeli tanks rolled into new Palestinian neighborhoods Tuesday, and repeat raids in Tulkarm the same day show that the IDF has simply redeployed to the edge of the towns from which it has withdrawn, and reserves the right to reenter them at will in pursuit of terror suspects. As Powell noted, under those circumstances, "cease-fire is not a relevant term...
Israel retaliates with F-16s, destroying a Palestinian police station, killing one and wounding 40. Three days later, Israeli forces occupy Tulkarm...