I would take my mom against Clint Eastwood in any movie. Sure, he usually plays a grizzled, gunslinger with cat-like reflexes and something to prove, but if you cross my mother, you will find yourself, like the title of Clint\’s greatest Western, \”Unforgiven.\”
Eilat generally has escaped the violence of the six-year Palestinian intifada, but even its remote setting couldn\’t forever insulate the Red Sea resort city from the region\’s tensions.
This is how naive I am: I never understood why Primo Levi killed himself. I\’d long admired and devoured the works of the Italian chemist who wrote of his experiences surviving the Holocaust.
President Bush is expected to sign legislation that gives $200 million in aid to support the Palestinians.
Again Israel turns to mourning the dead, but this time the list of those killed has been slow in coming. As the bombs used in suicide bombings become more sophisticated, producing deadlier and deadlier blasts, it takes more time to identify the remains of the dead.
\”People don\’t become suicide bombers for the fun of it, you know. They have grievances.\”
\”We are deeply shocked, but we are not afraid,\” Serge Berdugo said. \”People here know it is a global fight against the terrorists, the same for Muslims as for Jews. There were no victims from our own community, but this has come like a bolt from the blue.\”
Israelis are outraged by a picture of a Palestinian baby dressed as a suicide bomber.
\n\”My Stroke of Luck\” by Kirk Douglas (William Morrow, $22.95)\n\nFive years ago, Kirk Douglas, the legendary tough guy of 84 movies, decided to end his life.
