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HEBRON, West Bank -- Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli hitchhiker and wounded two others in a drive-by shooting Friday in the West Bank, the army said. An upsurge in Israeli-Palestinian violence is threatening a truce reached in February and highlights the difficulties Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas faces in reining in militant groups. Gunmen shot a group of hitchhikers as they were getting into a car near Beit Haggai, a Jewish settlement just south of the West Bank city of Hebron, the army said. A teenage hitchhiker was killed and two others were wounded, one of them critically, the army said.

Reported in the Indianapolis Star, William Kristol was invited to speak at Earlham College. During his presentation, some clown of a student ran on the stage and gave him an ice cream pie in the face. The good news is that it appears that the student will be disciplined.

In an article published in the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat [1], titled "The Wild Beast that Zionism Created: Self-Destruction," Georgetown University professor of Palestinian origin, Halim Barakat, criticizes Jewish and Zionist approaches to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The following are excerpts from the article:? Since the Mid-20th Century the Arabs Have Suffered Double Humiliation - Domestic and External "The Israeli military machine has passed the point of no return by choosing the path of war up to the very end against the Palestinians in direct reaction to the peace initiative adopted by the Arab summit in Beirut..." "Unlike their rulers, the...