PALESTINE, Texas (AP) - A decorated World War II Navy pilot who went on to become a local civic leader in Palestine has died. Norman Mollard was 84. He died Monday night from complications from a heart attack and stroke, a longtime family friend says.
Associated Press - October 31, 2007 11:05 PM ET PALESTINE, Texas (AP) - A decorated World War II Navy pilot who went on to become a local civic leader in Palestine has died.
Jimmy Carter in the Jonathan Demme documentary. Jimmy Carter isn’t a real saint, but he plays one in a new documentary. That film, “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains,” was directed by Jonathan Demme and is a friendly, at times fawning, at times gaga 126-minute chronicle of the former president’s 2006 national book tour to promote and occasionally defend his best seller “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.”
A cruise liner carrying some 300 Jewish passengers docked in the Israeli port of Haifa on Thursday in a symbolic re-enactment of an attempt by European Jews to settle in British-run Palestine 60 years ago.
The men were accused in 1987 of aiding a militant branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
GAZA CITY: The Palestine football federation urged FIFA on Monday to re-schedule their qualifier with Singapore for the 2010 World Cup explaining their no-show on the pitch because Israel denied them travel permits.
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The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate, spurred in part by a decision by the site in 2006 to remove Palestine from the list of countries users could choose when registering for the site.
In 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states. In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued a declaration expressing support for a "national home" for Jews in Palestine. In 1936, the British Broadcasting Corp. inaugurated "high-definition" television service from Alexandra Palace in London.
A cruise liner carrying about 300 Jewish passengers docked in the Israeli port of Haifa yesterday in a symbolic re-enactment of an attempt by European Jews to settle in British-run Palestine 60 years ago.