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Linda Wertheimer talks with Mahmoud Zahar, a leader for Hamas, about resolving differences between Hamas and Chairman Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Zahar says both groups now believe in retaliation against Israel for recent Palestinian deaths. In the past, the Palestinian Authority has promoted negotiation rather than acts of violence. Hamas has always believed in resisting the Israelis with force.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports the upsurge of violence in the Middle East has sparked a new phenomenon in that region...cyber war. Hackers have attacked the Israeli Army and Foreign Ministry websites, among others, apparently in retaliation for a cyberattack on the website of the Lebanese Islamist group Hizbollah.

Linda and Noah read some of the listener mail received during the past week.

In the final part of our Changing Face of America story Mom's Good Move, the moving van comes to Peg Collison's house where she has lived for almost 30 years. She and her partner Chaz have decided to move to a retirement community. Moving day is sad and emotional---their new home is the "University Retirement community" in Davis, California--a new facility. The place is much better than the children had expected, except that all the residents are over the age of 65. Peg has to meet new friends, find a new church and new children to tutor. But rather than finding a sedate life, sitting around, reading books -- she is just as busy as she was in her old home -- and seems just as happy.

Commentator Phillip Hoose, a cousin of New York Yankee Don Larsen, remembers a pivitol time in his life when the pitcher's career achievement (throwing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series) helped his status at school.

Israeli journalist David Horovitz is the editor of Jerusalem Report, has just released a new book A Little Too Close to God (Knopf). It chronicles the last 20 years he's spent living in Israel. It also examines the ramifications of the country's history on its culture. He was the recipient of the B'nai B'rith International Award for journalism in 1994.

NPR's Charles Maynes reports form Moscow that divers are beginning to recover bodies from the Kursk, the Russian nuclear submarine that sank in the Berents sea three months ago. All 118 crew members were killed in Russia's worst naval disaster ever.

Colorado Public Radio's Howie Movshovitz reports on the remake of the classic Brazilian film, Black Orpheus. Unlike the original, the new movie plays up to the reality of black life in Brazil, including the violence and the poverty, and uses the backdrop of Carnival to highlight the discrepancies in Brazilian society.

Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab is the Director at the Institute of Modern Media at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. He was the managing editor of Al-Fajr English weekly. He is the recipient of the Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the PEN USA West Freedom to Write Award.

Palestinian peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi. She is a member of the advisory board for the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Bank Middle East and Africa Regions and the UN Research Institute for Social Development. Ashrawi is the author of several publications supporting an independent and self-governing Palestine.