Offers of blood and spirit
"Palestine is ours, Palestine is Arab," chanted welcoming crowds in Nablus on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although roadblocks were set up outside the town to prevent nonresidents from entering; hundreds of Palestinians turned out last week to greet Mayor Bassam Shaka'a, 49, who lost both his legs in a terrorist bombing attack in early June. As Shaka'a returned home from treatment in a Jordanian hospital, Arab women ululated in joy and defiance. Two men climbed atop Shaka'a's ambulance and sacrificed a sheep on its roof. Some of the...
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