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JERUSALEM, March 2 (JTA) — With the U.S.-Iraq confrontation off the front burner, Israel and the Palestinians are busily preparing for a new bout of American diplomacy. A new peacemaking initiative was widely anticipated in the aftermath of a showdown with Iraq. Pundits predicted that the United States, unpopular and resented in large parts of […]

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WASHINGTON, March 9 (JTA) — They have been called “the last prisoners of war” — the Renoir portraits, Monet landscapes, Cezanne still lifes and tens of thousands of other artworks that remain scattered around the world. Seized from thousands of public and private collections as the Nazis swept across Europe nearly six decades ago, the […]

JERUSALEM, March 11 (JTA) — The stalled peace process has created a tense atmosphere in which any incident has the potential to set off a regional explosion. A car accident in the Gaza Strip was the spark that ignited the intifada, the 1987-1993 Palestinian uprising. And this week, when Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians in […]

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