Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This morning I was really surprised when my nine-year-old son Mohammed began a determined entry into Palestinian-Israeli politics: he asked me why the father of Mohammed al-Durra, the 12-year-old boy killed in Gaza, could not protect his son from the Israeli bullets. Why did [the Israelis] kill him? These days, everybody asks me questions. My daughter Dalal, 18, asked me about her friend Asil, from [the peace group involving Israeli and Palestinian children] Seeds of Peace, who was also killed by the Israelis. Others ask me when the Israelis will lift the closure...
ATARA TRIESTMAN, 35, IS A DANCE THERAPIST WHO LIVES IN JERUSALEM WITH HUSBAND YONI, SON AMIOR, 3, AND DAUGHTER SHEFA, 18 MONTHS...
...forces disguised as Arabs] had sneaked into our neighborhood. We prayed at home. I switched on the TV. There were clashes near the settlement at Tawil Mountain, called by the occupiers Psagot [a Jewish settlement]. The children woke up. I wanted to take them to school. I gave my son Abdullah his pocket money. We left. My other son came to tell me that the city of Ramallah was under closure. Teachers and most students were not able to arrive home. We went back...
...crowded with people. The administration of the hospital announced the death of Ismail Shamlakh. He was from the Gaza Strip. He came with his brother to work in the West Bank a few months ago. He was unable to see his pregnant wife, whom he left in Gaza. His son will be born as an orphan. Mourners came to pay their respects to his brother. "You should come to congratulate me," he said. "My brother wanted to be a martyr...
Here's one way a stretch IRAcould work: A father names his son as a beneficiary. When the father reaches age 70 1/2, he elects to have the benefits stretched over his life and his son's life. When he dies, the son gets the IRA and can take the money out slowly by spreading withdrawals over his remaining life expectancy. He has to pay income taxes only on the amount he withdraws every year. That's a huge tax benefit considering that if the father died without naming a beneficiary, the IRA would be liquidated and more than...