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Ben Werner, Student Newspaper Editor
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army has stepped up arrests of suspected Palestinian militants in the West Bank ahead of Israel's general election, military sources said on Friday.
Israel's house demolition policy, one of the worst effects of its continued colonization of the East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, is inhumane, unjust and implemented to serve its own political motives.
JERUSALEM - Israel closed two Palestinian colleges yesterday and pumped cement into three East Jerusalem apartments to destroy homes belonging to Palestinians convicted in a series of deadly bombings.
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Khalid Binalshibh, Taxi Driver
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The continued suffering of the Palestinians living under occupation and Israel's exclusive sovereignty over holy Jerusalem have been foremost among Arab, Muslim, and Christian grievances for decades.
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David Rosenberg, Dermatologist
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Israel's president and prime minister then met the Pope, and he was welcomed by Israeli Cabinet members and leading religious officials in Israel while a military band played "Jerusalem of Gold" -- which celebrates the return of Jewish holy sites after the 1967 Six-Day War.
During the Jubilee Year he prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and at Israel's Holocaust Memorial at Yad Vashem for those who died in the Holocaust and for those who are anti-Semitic.
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Mark Harris, Priest
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In 1917 when Jerusalem was delivered, about ten or more leading theologians signed a manifesto saying that the deliverance of Jerusalem should come as "a trumpet blast to all of Christendom announcing that the times of the gentiles were over and the time of Israel's restoration is at hand.
Israel's future includes the seven-year tribulation and then shortly before Christ's return to Jerusalem she will be converted to Jesus as her Messiah as the veil is removed and then she looks upon the one Who was pierced and is converted.
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Josh Hogan, Commander
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JERUSALEM - Israel's first astronaut, a career fighter pilot who bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, blasted into space aboard the shuttle Columbia on Thursday, giving Israelis something to.
Israel's security services are considering how to respond to a scenario in which thousands of unarmed Palestinians march from Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem toward the army checkpoints surrounding Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM: Israel's foreign minister on Wednesday answered questions by a US-led inquiry commission looking into the causes of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, but said he opposed the deployment of UN peacekeepers.
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Bob Greenberg, Congressional Candidate
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon slammed corruption allegations and the opposition Labour party, prompting Israel's electoral commission to pull the plug on a televised broadcast of the right-wing premier's fierce counter-attack.
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