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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Israeli establishment is delighted by the re-election of President Bush.
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
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.
No pardons should be given to police officers involved in quelling Israeli Arab riots in October 2000, Israeli officials said.
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.