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…A Legacy of Design, Craftsmanship and Value Continues DIGEST Sharon Quits Likud Jerusalem/JTA — Ariel Sharon resigned from Israel's ruling Likud Party. The prime minister met with Israeli President Moshe Katsav to ask him to dissolve Parliament and authorize early elections, and then announced his own move. "I am resigning from the party and forming a new one,' Sharon was quoted as telling the Likud secretariat in a letter. Sharon's new par...…
…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNOnline.com Dry Bones woosw TERROR ATTACKS IN IOWAN? AND HOPES THAT ISRAEL'S GAZA PULLOUT WOULD LEAD TO Editorial The French Crossroads here is a temptation to look at the upheavals in France and-recall the old adage about chickens coming home to roost. The perception in the Jewish community is strong, and largely accurate, that the French govern- ment is no friend of Israel's. That in orde...…
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