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Presbyterians Won’t Budge on Divesting

You have to hand it to those Presbyterians. Their leaders know what they want, and they won\’t be deflected by things like logic, fairness or the well-being of people in the Middle East.

Pope’s Jewish Legacy

Though a staunch conservative on most Catholic issues, Pope John Paul II made bettering Jewish-Catholic relations a centerpiece of his policy and took revolutionary strides toward this goal during his more than 26-year reign.

Bush Touts Palestine in Europe

President Bush is declaring his hope for a Palestinian state loud and clear, and no wonder — it\’s almost the price of entry to the alliance with Europe that he urgently wants to revive.

Israel Lays Plans for Post-Arafat Era

Sharon made two key decisions. Israel will do whatever it can from a distance to help Mahmoud Abbas, who seems to be emerging as the dominant figure in the new Palestinian leadership, to establish his position, but at the same time it will prepare for chaos if the broad coalition Abbas is forming falls apart.

Progress or Pressure If Arafat Goes?

Israeli officials are quietly confident that if Yasser Arafat\’s health forces him to leave office, new chances for Israeli-Palestinian accommodation will open up.

Sharon Plan Raises Myriad Questions

Ariel Sharon\’s major policy statement at the Herzliya
security conference last week might have made world headlines, but it\’s far
from clear what the Israeli prime minister has in mind. Sharon called on
Palestinian leaders to open negotiations with Israel and threatened unilateral

U.S., Israel Seek to Help Qurei

Sobered by what they see as past policy errors, Israeli, American and Palestinian leaders are determined to help the new Palestinian Authority prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, succeed where his predecessor failed.

World Briefs

No pardons should be given to police officers involved in quelling Israeli Arab riots in October 2000, Israeli officials said.

Israel Reconsiders Peace Policies

Israel launched a string of targeted strikes against terrorist leaders, warning that it would no longer distinguish between political and military echelons of any organization waging terror, including Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat\’s Fatah movement.

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