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Monday, June 30, 2003...

The new marriage laws making their way through the Knesset mainly seem to be aimed at preventing marriages between Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship and Palestinians who live in the Occupied Territories....

Once the two state solution is dead, our fate will lie in one of two directions: in a single democratic state where religion and ethnicity do not determine the allotment of rights and resources, or in a limbo where religion and nationality are the basis for violence and instability and hatred for decades to come....

Redrawing the map of the middle East. Jeff Blankfort on the Middle East focused on the target countries with attention to the role of Israel in the region, and the role of the Israeli Lobby on US domestic politics and US foreign policy....

It wasn't difficult to guess how the ambush was designed. The Americans are taking too many precautions now; they are surrounded by their tanks and armour, protecting their marble occupation palace, shooting down stone throwers with the abandon of Israeli troops. So why not go for the Americans' soft-target allies?...

On 12 June, a large American force attacked a "terrorist base" north of Baghdad and left more than 100 dead, according to a US spokesman...This month, Iraq Body Count, a group of American and British academics and researchers, estimated that up to 10,000 civilians may have been killed in Iraq, including 2,356 civilians in the attack on Baghdad alone. And this is likely to be an extremely conservative figure....

Stanley Kurtz, writing in National Review, is right on the cutting edge of this battle: he recently testified before Congress that "one-sided" criticism of Israel in publicly funded institutions of higher learning must be banned. Mideast scholars are "anti-American," avers Kurtz, especially the followers of Edward Said, and he proposes nothing less than a "supervisory board" to conduct investigations of scholars who might be guilty of a "hate crime." Se...

Fahran was driving in the car behind one carrying 17-year-old Nevine Abu Rejilah, who medical sources said also died in the missile strike....

Several Arab teams announced a boycott of the zionazi entity's pseudo-team after Labour's Michael D Higgins criticised the zionist entity for preventing a 21-year-old Palestinian athlete from travelling to Ireland for the Special Olympics. The handball player, who has Down Syndrome, was refused "permission" by zionist occupiers to attend the games because of a zionazi apartheid policy blocking residents of the Palestinian territories from travelling abroad....

A young woman's severed head and torso and a small boy's body were pulled Tuesday from a smoking crater carved into the earth by four U.S. bombs, so powerful they yanked orange trees from their roots. Once again, civilians had suffered. When the broken body of the 20-year-old woman was brought out torso first, then the head her mother started crying uncontrollably, then collapsed. She was helped into a car by two male relatives. -- Hamza Hendawi, AP...