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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10546)	12/2/2005 9:02:13 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

I disagree with Foxman. He is living in the past; but perhaps, he is motivated by the overall history. there was a time not too long ago in the US where water fountains and bathrooms still had signs that said, no jews and no negroes. I am sure foxman remembers those as do my parents. america needs to stay vigilant lest they make the mistake that evry empire to date has made, which is to turn on its jews. no empire has survived that grave error in their national judgement. I also remember bumper stickers in NYC during the arab oil embargo of 1973, that read, "burn jews, not oil."

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10546)	12/2/2005 11:00:40 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 32591

Ballot boxes set on fire in Palestinian election Reuters ^ \| Fri Dec 2, 2005 9:51 AM ET \| Atef Saad NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Voting in a primary election for the ruling Fatah faction was halted in a Palestinian town near the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday after ballot boxes were set on fire, election officials said. Voting was called off in the town of Salfit "because of problems and divisions", said Ahmed al-Deek, a senior Fatah official. Election officials said some ballot boxes had been torched but there was no immediate word on who was behind it. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended voting in the Gaza Strip and at several West Bank voting stations earlier in the week due to widespread fraud and violence. In an attempt to salvage the primary vote which has highlighted widening internal rifts in Fatah, Abbas set up a review board to finalize a list of the party's candidates for a January 25 parliamentary election. Fatah faces a strong challenge in the January poll from the militant Hamas group, which is running for the first time in a parliamentary election and enjoys a corruption-free reputation. In Salfit, residents said gunmen were hovering in the vicinity of ballot stations, which also prompted the decision to suspend voting. The ballot was also called off in the West Bank city of Qalqilya due to disagreements over voter registration. Voting in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Tulkarm was going ahead as planned, he said. Last week, voters in primaries in some parts of the West Bank cast aside veterans in favor of newcomers and militants. Fatah's younger generation is challenging a dominant old guard, many of whose members are widely seen as tainted by corruption. Public support for Fatah is already eroded by complaints of corruption and misrule, and new signs of disarray could boost Hamas after the Islamic movement's strong showing in municipal polls. Palestinian gunmen stormed a government office in the Gaza Strip on Thursday to demand that the Fatah primary election be allowed to proceed after it was suspended due to violence and fraud. Israel and the United States are worried that Hamas, sworn to the destruction of the Jewish state, will do well in the parliamentary contest. (Additional reporting by Wafa Amr in Ramallah)