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Translation from Hebrew to English by me "Israel must stop causing suffering to the ordinary Palestinian citizen" - this is how the US President, George Bush, said in a first interview to the new Arab-American Television Station, "Al Hura." To the US President's Words, in the days of Abu Mazen there was progress in the roadmap, but he was taken away from what we expected. "There were those who lowered the weight of the peace process and gave Abu Mazen a hard time in accomplishing the dream," he said. "Abu Mazen was not one of Arafat's men." Bush explained what...

A senior IDF officer told Israel Radio Sunday that while the number of bomb attacks against Israeli targets in the Gaza Strip has declined somewhat, the quality of the explosives used has improved. However, Army radio reports that the number of terror attacks in the Gaza district has doubled in the past 10 days since Israel declared it intention to unilaterally dismantle settlements in the Gaza Strip. 27 explosive devices have been detonated near IDF armored vehicles in the past month, and the number of mortars fired has risen to an average of ten daily. The IDF officer speaking to...

Mob attacks researchers who found few Palestinians want their old homes now in Israel By Eric Silver in Jerusalem 14 July 2003 A mob of about 100 Palestinian refugees stormed the office of a Ramallah polling organisation yesterday to stop it publishing a survey showing that five times as many refugees would prefer to settle permanently in a Palestinian state than return to their old homes in what is now Israel.The protesters pelted Khalil Shikaki, the director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, with eggs, smashed computers and assaulted the nine staff members on duty. A female...