An Israeli Cabinet minister called for the Jewish state and the West Bank to be partitioned according to ethnicity.
Had Ariel Sharon been able to continue as Israeli prime minister, his main strategic goal would have been establishing a new long-term border between Israel and the West Bank. That remains the primary aim of his Kadima Party, but last week\’s violent clashes between settlers and police at the tiny West Bank outpost of Amona show just how difficult achieving it might be.
In a measure of the acclaimed movie\’s respectability in some quarters of the local Jewish community, the University of Judaism recently sponsored a screening of and panel discussion on \”Paradise Now\” that featured the film\’s director, Hany Abu-Assad.
Israelis and Palestinians may appear to be on the verge of a new peace process, but Israeli army generals and seasoned observers of the Palestinian scene predict a new round of fighting, perhaps as early as next fall, after Israel completes its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
As Israeli troops moved deeper into northern Gaza to put a stop to Palestinian rocket fire on the small Negev town of Sderot, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was confident that the huge military operation would radically change the situation on the ground.
No evacuation is scheduled to take place until next year, but the mood on both sides already is tense.
Nonie Darwish spreads an Egyptian newspaper across her knees and points to an old black-and-white photograph of a family. She identifies her father, mother and siblings in the photo.
For the epigraph of his new book, Israeli journalist David Horovitz chooses two quotes.
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