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BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Powell condemns 'war on Palestinians' CATEGORIES   TV   RADIO   COMMUNICATE   WHERE I LIVE   INDEX  -->  SEARCH  -->  You are in:  World: Middle East Front Page  World  Africa  Americas  Asia-Pacific  Europe  Middle East  South Asia  ------------- From Our Own Correspondent  ------------- Letter From America  UK  UK Politics  Business  Sci/Tech  Health  Education  Entertainment  Talking Point  In Depth  AudioVideo  SERVICES  Daily E-mail News Ticker News for PDA Feedback Help Low Graphics Thursday, 7 March, 2002, 00:14 GMT Powell condemns 'war on Palestinians' Ariel Sharon (left) pledged to deliver "pain blows" US Secretary of State Colin Powell has strongly criticised Israeli ...

Large IDF forces moved into the West Bank city of Tul Karm and its environs in the early hours of Thursday, as the army intensified its operations in the territories in line with a recent security cabinet decision. Troops from the Nahal and Golani brigades provided support for the Armored Corps, who took control of parts of the city and the two nearby refugee camps of Tul Karm and Nur A-Shams. People were confined to their homes as troops carried out house-to-house searches for terrorist suspects. A third Palestinian, a senior member of Islamic Jihad's military wing, was killed by ...

JERUSALEM - A bomb planted in a Palestinian schoolyard Tuesday is continuing to reverberate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even though it caused fewer casualties than intended. The bombing in East Jerusalem's Sur Baher neighborhood is thought to be the most extreme Jewish vigilante terrorist strike in years. And though it has been met with silence from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israeli analysts say it poses a grave danger for both sides. Palestinians worry that it could signal an intensification of Jewish vigilante violence. And for Israelis, it points to the possibility of violent civilian miltancy growing as an ...

Mar 06, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Twelve Palestinians were killed Wednesday as Israeli forces assaulted Gaza and the West Bank by land, air and sea in retaliation for Palestinian armed attacks against Israel. It was one of the most intense Israeli assaults in Gaza in almost 18 months of fighting. A Palestinian public security spokesman said one of the victims was Abdel Rahman Ghazal, who was killed after an Apache helicopter targeted his home in Gaza City. Hamas sources said that Ghazal was an expert in building "Kassam-2" rockets, which have a range of up to ...

Israel Strikes Hard at Gaza Strip and Shells Arafat's Compound By SERGE SCHMEMANN ERUSALEM, March 6 — Israeli forces struck hard today by land, sea and air at the teeming Gaza Strip, where Palestinians breached another red line on Tuesday when they fired rockets into an Israeli town. With the mounting carnage, which added 10 Palestinian and 2 Israeli dead to the toll, the government of Ariel Sharon received an unusual rebuke from Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Secretary Powell, speaking before a Congressional committee in Washington, challenged the Israeli prime minister's statement this week that only if ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Armstrong WilliamsQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comArmstrong Williams (back to story)March 7, 2002The middle east is a time bombIn the Middle East, where Israeli and Palestinian infighting threatens to explode into unprecedented violence, it has become an eye-for-an-eye and a child-for-a-child. Over the past week, 31 Israelis and nearly twice as many Palestinians have died in violent uprisings. This most recent phase of the 17-month-old Palestinian uprising has increasingly targeted civilian populations for attacks, raising serious questions about whether a full-scale war is imminent and the extent to ...

Naveh Chazan didn't expect his Shabbos bar mitzvah to end this way. Relatives from all over the country had come to spend Shabbos and celebrate with him in the Yeshivas Machaneh Yisroel Shabbos Guesthouse in Jerusalem's Beis Yisroel neighborhood. The area is an old one built on a drained swamp. It is entirely chareidi, and includes a harmonious mix of all elements of the chareidi community: the Mir Yeshiva is located there, as are chassidic institutions such as Zevhill, as well as several Sephardic schools including the Machaneh Yisrael yeshiva. The Machaneh Yisroel yeshiva is a quiet, steady influence for ...

Special Dispatch 299 – Iraq November 8, 2001 Saddam Hussein Meets with Heads of the Iraqi Nuclear Program and Defense Establishment On November 7, 2001 the Iraqi newspaper Babil, which is published by Saddam Hussein's son Udai Saddam Hussein, reported on his father's meeting with heads of the Iraqi nuclear program and defense establishment. The following are excerpts from the article:[1] "The President/Leader, Saddam Hussein, may Allah protect him, held a meeting with Dr. Fadhl Muslim Al-Janabi, head of the Nuclear Energy Authority (NEA), and a selected group of outstanding researchers and engineers from among the warriors of NEA ...

Special Dispatch 296 – Jihad and Terrorism Studies November 2, 2001 Terror in America (22): Egypt's Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America The unofficial website of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, www.lailatalqadr.com, continues to post anti-American statements made by the university's clerics and professors pertaining to the U.S. war against terrorism. Moussa Hal, a reporter for the website, compiled these statements and published them in a number of articles entitled "Islamic clerics in Egypt declare war on America."[1] The following are excerpts from the site: Hal reported that Sheikh Ali Abu Al-Hassan, head of Al-Azhar's Religious Ruling Committee, said, "It ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- An Israeli helicopter fired a missile at Yasser Arafat's West Bank headquarters on Wednesday as the Palestinian leader was meeting with the European Union envoy, officials said. The missile exploded 50 feet from the building, Palestinian officials said. No one was hurt. EU Mideast envoy Miguel Moratinos was meeting with Arafat when the Israelis struck, said Javier Sancho, Moratinos' spokesman. "We are not now making any comment. We need to gather more information, but we were there, yes," Sancho told The Associated Press minutes after the attack. Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a senior Arafat aide, denounced ...

The government is taking immediate steps to put more licensed handguns on the streets in the hope of citizens being in the “right place at the right time” to prevent terror attacks. Senior police officials have acknowledged that in several cases of late, citizens prevented continuing bloodshed by using their licensed weapons against terrorists. The army will be issuing handgun permits to 40,000 reserve duty officers of the rank of captain and above. Permit will also be granted to former combatants from commando units, and retired police and Prison Authority officers. Officials estimate the actions could result in an additional ...

March 6, 2002 Shock and Anger as Violence Invades an Arab Schoolyard By JOEL GREENBERG ERUSALEM, March 5 — As hundreds of Palestinian boys filled a schoolyard in the Arab village of Sur Bahir in southern Jerusalem this morning, the headmaster and two teachers noticed an unusual V- shaped contraption under a cluster of pine trees in a corner of the yard. They saw two metallic-looking gray cones, each about a foot and a half long, lying on their sides next to a round object, apparently a timer, that was partly covered with soil. The wide ends of the ...

<p>JERUSALEM — With the ruins of a radio transmission tower behind her, a Palestine TV reporter tells viewers that its destruction by warplanes is proof of Israel's "barbarity" and "hatred of civilization."</p> <p>A column in Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, the official newspaper of Yasser Arafat's government, calls Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his defense minister "lying murderers."</p>

Israel assassinated three senior Fatah members Tuesday evening west of Ramallah. Palestinian sources said that the three were killed when an Apache helicopter fired missiles at their car in the West Bank town of Bituniya. A fourth passenger was seriously injured. The men killed in the airstrike were identified as Muhand Dirya Abu Haliwa, an aide to Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti, Omar Ka'adan, the body guard of the head of the Force 17 in Ramallah, Mahmoud Damara (Abu Awad), and Fawzi Murar, a member of Force 17. The sources said all three were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs ...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Harsh disagreements between ministers at cabinet meeting The security cabinet decided Tuesday to continue the current security policy and not to reposition tanks near the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, government sources said. The Palestinian leader had been confined to his Ramallah compound since December. Israel decided last month to allow him freedom to move around the city after he ordered the arrests of the killers of cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi - a condition, Sharon had ...

The Kook political legacy David Newman March, 06 2002 (March 6) - This week marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. He may only have been the "son of" Rabbi Abraham Kook - the first chief rabbi of Palestine and considered the spirit of religious Zionism - but he turned his father's abstract and somewhat metaphysical teachings into a political ideology, which serves as the basis for the right wing and settler movement. For the first 19 years of statehood, religious Zionism was not very influential. Its representatives in the National Religious Party were, ...

Ha'aretz News - Israel Wednesday, March 06, 2002 Adar 22, 5762 Sharon is rapidly losing public support By Ephraim Yaar and Tamar Hermann A year into Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's term in office, a majority of Jews in Israel believe his government is not dealing properly with security and diplomatic issues, and more people disagree with his plan for buffer zones than agree with it. But while Sharon appears to have lost the sweeping majority with which he was elected, and there is profound confusion about which way the country should go, a large majority of the public supports specific ...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Jewish terrorists suspected in bombing of Arab school A homemade bomb, apparently planted by Jewish extremists in a school in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem, wounded 11 people yesterday morning. The victims in the Sur Baher blast were the school's cafeteria director, who was seriously wounded, and 10 pupils who were lightly hurt by the force of the blast and shards of glass. Shin Bet security service investigators and police were unable yesterday to establish conclusively that the bomb ...

JERUSALEM (March 6) - The security cabinet decided yesterday to grant the IDF free rein to further intensify military pressure on the Palestinian Authority, especially in Ramallah, where PA Chairman Yasser Arafat remains limited in movement. After four hours of bitter disagreements, in which Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres pleaded not to return the tanks removed last week from the area around Arafat's compound, the security cabinet authorized the IDF to decide whether to redeploy the tanks. After the meeting, Peres issued his harshest criticism of the government yet, telling confidants he is very upset by ...

Wafa Idris: Representing Palestinian Womanhood Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2002 At the symbolic funeral for Idris held by Fatah, a Revolutionary Council member eulogized her. She said, "Wafa's martyrdom restored honor to the national role of the Palestinian woman, who sketched the most wonderful pictures of heroism in the long battle for national liberation. Wafa came today to complete the path of the martyr Dalal Al-Maghribi and her comrades..."(1) While the Iraqi media hastened to report that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had ordered a memorial erected in Baghdad to honor Idris, Egyptian television producer Dr. Amira Abu-Fatuh saw Idris ...