[Oldeconomybuyer]

Symbol of intifada Barghouti arrested
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 16 April — Israeli forces yesterday arrested Marwan Barghouti, the West Bank chief of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement on a day when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon came up with a bizarre proposal of holding a peace conference following hectic shuttle diplomacy by US Secretary of State Colin...   (full story).

[gridlock]

I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But any story I see slugged OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, I just kinda skip over as being a bunch of Arab horseshit propaganda. But maybe that's just me.

[Puddleglum]

Israel gets results! I wish Colin Powell and the Bush Admininstration would butt out and let them achieve peace the old-fashioned way, through victory and/or their enemy's capitulation. Negotiation is just senior terrorist Arafat's way of buying more time for his next attack.