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...physical separation. Military sources say it will mean building Israeli-only roads around Palestinian towns in the West Bank. Foreign Minister Ben-Ami declines to say if separation will mean pulling out of some Jewish settlements. In Jerusalem, he admits, "it's not easy at all" to separate the Arab and Jewish neighborhoods that are cheek by jowl throughout the eastern part of the city...
After a four-month lull, Hizballah and Israel are back at war. In two provocative operations last month, Hizballah commandos captured three Israeli soldiers and a businessman who the group claims is a Mossad agent, putting Hizballah back in the spotlight as heroes of the Arab world. The group is also openly extending its campaign beyond Lebanon, using its financial and operational resources to whip up Palestinian fury...
...risky business. The army's undercover unit, which has its own big storeroom full of Arab clothing, wigs and makeup, shot one of its men six years ago when he was disguised as an Arab. On a midnight raid in August, the unit killed three of its own men--who weren't disguised at the time--as they tried to arrest bombmaker Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a member of the militant Islamic group Hamas. Some of the undercover soldiers get only three weeks of Arabic training before they're sent into dangerous situations. But when they succeed, the undercover squads...
Israel has three of these undercover units, and they are one of the country's most powerful and feared weapons in the low-level warfare in Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods and the Palestinian towns of the West Bank. Moustarabine is Arabic for "those who pretend to be Arabs." The units are a prime weapon in controlling riots, because they infiltrate crowds and pounce on the ringleaders. They're also used for dangerous snatch operations, such as the one in which moustarabine units arrested one of the men who lynched two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah three weeks...
...White House: We have no problem with civilian air traffic; those zones are to protect Kurds and Shiites from Iraqi military planes. Still, nobody doubts the significance of the gesture. Not when airliners carrying government officials and businessmen are landing almost daily from Russia, Europe and all over the Arab world (including countries that had fought alongside the U.S. in the Gulf War). And not when Turkey, the staging ground for most U.S. air attacks against Iraq since the Gulf War, moves to reopen a pipeline to pump Baghdad?s oil. This week Baghdad is hosting an international trade fair...