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...Ramallah was a warning to Yasser Arafat to discipline his militant supporters, but the Palestinian leader said the uprising would continue "until the Palestinian flag is raised on the walls, churches and mosques of holy Jerusalem." Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in subsequent clashes in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for international observers to help end the conflict, while U.S. President George W. Bush blamed Arafat for failing to stop the violence and called on Israel to use restraint. But fierce clashes broke out again Friday as thousands of Arab citizens took...
...Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in the last three decades has been U.N. Security Resolution 242, passed after the Six Day War, in which Israel won and occupied several pieces of territory from its neighbors, including East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, as well as Gaza Strip. Against these gains, Resolution 242 bases its conclusions on the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.” In other words, might does not make right. Resolution 242 calls unequivocally for the “withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied in the recent...
...that, you see, everyone reading my strip--we'll call it the "The Post-Modern Mr. Wu"--would automatically assume that crikey, this strip implies that all Asians are flatulent and read European deconstructionist writings in their spare time! And they would be offended by that implication. (I know I would be.) And apologies would be in order...
...strategy the phobics rely on to ease their discomfort: avoidance. The harder phobics work to avoid the things they fear, the more the brain grows convinced that the threat is real. "The things you do to reduce anxiety just make it worse," says Barlow. "We have to strip those things away...
...disappointed to see Joe Sacco's comic-strip interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as personified in the West Bank town of Hebron [WORLD, March 12]. While I appreciate the artistic and journalistic value of Sacco's piece, I believe that the cartoon medium only serves to make light of the serious circumstances in Israel. No foreign cartoonist can begin to accurately portray the situation. TIME has failed to respect the gravity of the situation. ZACHARY M. BENJAMIN Tampa...