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Palestinian leaders say that a visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon precipitated the clashes, but Israel's government has alleged that the forces of Yassir Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority, used the visit as a pretext to attack Israelis and Jews...
...parliament reconvening in three weeks and Barak hobbled by a minority government, new elections appear likely. Netanyahu polls far better than current Likud leader Ariel Sharon, who has started campaigning to fend off a challenge. Sharon made a grandstanding visit to the most contentious site in Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, which is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians. That sparked Palestinian riots in which at least 20 were killed. It may be just the first battle on Netanyahu's road back to power...
...black bears that wander into the backyard can be pretty exciting. But visitors to the eminently cozy Mount Juneau Inn in Juneau, Alaska, tend to save their best reviews for Leo, the bed-and-breakfast's low-key resident MacKenzie River husky. "He's the world's greatest dog," raves New Jerseyite Christine de Vries...
...Barak knows that Arafat cannot stop it, then what's he up to? What are the two of them, Barak and Arafat, up to? What exactly was Sharon's game plan when he steamrollered onto the Temple Mount with a thousand cops and a retinue of television cameras? Agendas within agendas. Was there ever a place more filled with hate? The Balkans, maybe...
...Geographically, Israel/Palestine should be an insignificant double exposure. Two cultures play musical chairs, and there is only one tiny chair for both in all the vast Middle East. But that immense space, metaphysical emptiness, is focused in the eye of God's needle. The Jews call it the Temple Mount. The Muslims call it Haram al-Sharif...