As clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians intensified on Thursday in the Occupied Territories, protestors and representatives of Muslim American and Arab American organizations demonstrated in front of the United States Department of State against U.S. policy in the region.
In the second presidential debate between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Wednesday evening, issues concerning foreign affairs took as much as 40 minutes of the almost 90 minute-debate.
Images of war echoed in the cities of Gaza and the West Bank earlier today as Israeli helicopter gunships launched rockets at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters, police stations and TV broadcasting station.
U.S. Destroyer Explodes In Yemen Port
Although, the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was skeptical about whether an explosion in a U.S. destroyer in Yemen Thursday, killing at least six sailors and leaving 12 others missing, was a deliberate act, telling U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright by telephone that initial reports were that it "was not a deliberate act," U.S. officials are claiming that a small boat on a suicide mission caused the blast.
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The Second Intifada: Israel's War With Children
Eleven-year-old Palestinian schoolboy Waleed Mashhour lies on his hospital bed and smiles innocently. White-robbed doctors have just untied stitches off a stomach injury caused by an Israeli bullet he sustained during, he says, "his work to liberate my land and protect the Aqsa mosque."