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By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — Confrontingthe possibility of rising retalia-tory violence between Jews andPalestinians, the Israeli authori-ties arrested six Israelis on Sun-day in the killing of a Palestinianteenager, found beaten andburned in a Jerusalem forest lastweek.
After days of near silenceabout the case, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu condemnedwhat he called a horrific crimeand pledged that anyone foundguilty would “face the full weightof the law.” Moshe Yaalon, the Is-raeli defense minister, said in astatement that he was “ashamedand shocked by the cruel mur-der,” describing those behind itas “Jewish terrorists.”
An Israeli police spokesman,Micky Rosenfeld, said there wasa “strong possibility” that themotive for the killing of Muham-mad Abu Khdeir, 16, was “na-tionalistic,” indicating that it wasa revenge attack by right-wingJewish extremists for the recentkidnapping and killing of threeIsraeli teenagers in the WestBank. Muhammad’s body wasdiscovered on Wednesday, aboutan hour after he was forced into acar in East Jerusalem, a fewyards from hishome.
A judicial or-der prevented of-ficials from re-vealing detailsabout the sus-pects, but a per-son familiar withthe case saidseveral of themwere minors.
The arrestscame after weeks of calls in Israelfor harsher military action in thePalestinian territories after theabduction of the Israelis: EyalYifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, andNaftali Fraenkel, 16. After theirbodies were found last week, Mr.Netanyahu called their killers“beasts.”
The crackdown in the WestBank shook the Palestinian Au-thority and its reconciliation pactwith Hamas in Gaza, weakeningthe more moderate West Bankleadership in the eyes of its pub-lic as it seeks international sup-port for statehood.
In the wave of outrage afterMuhammad’s killing, Palestinianyouths have clashed with Israelisecurity forces in East Jerusalemand the Galilee in scenes reminis-cent of the Palestinian uprisingsin 1987 and 2000. The killings oneach side — and the subsequentarrest of the Palestinian’s Ameri-can cousin, whose beating by theIsraeli police was caught on video— have raised the specter of the
6 ISRAELIS HELDOVER THE KILLINGOF A PALESTINIAN
REVENGE SEEN AS MOTIVE
Confronting a Rise in
Violence, Netanyahu
Pledges Justice
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Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, arrested in the unrest, is a cousin of the victim and was shown on a video being beaten by Israeli officers.
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By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
KIEV, Ukraine — When pro-Russian rebels first fanned outacross eastern Ukraine in April,seizing public buildings, oustinglocal officials and blockadingstreets and highways, the gov-ernment’s security forces — aragtag lot of poorly equipped andunderstaffed military and policeunits — were largely paralyzedby dysfunction and defection.They seemed to remain so formonths.
In the past week, however, af-ter President Petro O. Poroshen-ko called off a cease-fire and or-dered his troops to end the rebel-lion by force, an entirely differentUkrainian military appeared toarrive at the front. Soldiers re-took an important checkpoint atthe Russian border, routed insur-gents from the long-occupied cityof Slovyansk, and, on Sunday, be-gan to tighten a noose around theregional capital of Donetsk aheadof a potentially decisive show-down.
The insurgency is far fromover, and Ukraine’s leaders saythey still fear a war with Russiathat they would certainly lose.Still, the recent success, howevertentative, reflects what officialsand analysts described as a re-markable, urgent transformationof the military and security appa-ratus in recent months.
“The military themselveslearned to fight,” said MykolaSungurovskyi, the director of mil-itary programs at the RazumkovCenter, a policy research organ-ization here in the capital ofUkraine.
By most standards, the Ukrain-ian armed forces remain in a piti-ful state. But they have benefitedfrom the enlistment of thousandsof volunteers into new militias, fi-nancial donations by ordinary cit-izens — including a Kiev Inter-net-technology entrepreneurwho raised $35,000 and built asurveillance drone — and an ag-gressive push to repair and up-grade armored personnel carri-ers and other equipment.
There has also been aid fromabroad. The United States has
Kiev’s MilitaryFinds FootingAgainst Rebels
Expert Says the Troops
‘Learned to Fight’
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By JOHN ELIGON
DETROIT — Inell Byrd’shouse has a leaky roof.
Walls are cracked, sections ofceiling are missing and the con-crete porch is buckling. Most ofthe furniture is gone and randombelongings like Christmas lightsand a bicycle are scattered about,the result of preparations for aredecoration that Ms. Byrd hasnot been able to manage.
The front room is bare, its onlycontents a low-slung futon and alarge flat-screen television. Withher family finances in shambles,she briefly tried to sell the house.
And beyond her walls, she wor-ries that her street — which stillhas handsome colonials, Tudorsand other sprawling homes —abuts one that looks bombed out.
“You got these two beautiful
blocks,” said Ms. Byrd, 41, a homehealth aide, referring to ArdenPark Boulevard in the city’s his-toric North End, “and everythingbehind you is, I ain’t going to sayBeirut, but basically it just felloff.”
But there is also immense po-tential in this shattered urbanlandscape, despite more than ahalf-century of government mis-management and residential andindustrial flight.
Mayor Mike Duggan, who tookoffice in January, promised im-mediate improvements after thecity hit a low point last year, be-coming America’s largest to file
for bankruptcy. The North Endcaptures both the hope and chal-lenge of the mayor’s pledge. Sotracking what happens in thisneighborhood this year and nextwill tell a lot about whether thismetropolis, with nearly 690,000residents, can rebuild.
“The North End is an area thathas real potential to come back,”the mayor said in an interview.“It’s got a proud history in thiscity.”
Annexed by the city in the late19th century, the North End oncewas the northernmost point inDetroit, bordering on the cities ofHighland Park and Hamtramck.It quickly became a haven for theupper class.
These days it still has some ofthe city’s most glorious homes
Testing Ground for a New Detroit
In North End, Hope and Challenges for a Mayor’s Pledge
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Vacant lots abut handsome homes in Detroit’s North End, an area undergoing change.
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RUIN AND RENEWAL
A Block at a Time
By MICHAEL CORKERY
As government regulatorscrack down on the financing ofterrorists and drug traffickers,many big banks are abandoningthe business of transferringmoney from the United States toother countries, moves that areexpected to reverse years of de-clines in the cost of immigrantssending money home to theirfamilies.
While Mexico may be most af-fected — nearly half of the $51.1billion in remittances sent fromthe United States in 2012 endedup in that country — the banks’broad retreat over the last year isaffecting other countries in LatinAmerica and parts of Africa aswell. The banks are being heldaccountable not only for the cus-tomers who directly use theirmoney transfer services but alsofor their role in collecting remit-tances from money transmittingcompanies and wiring themabroad.
“This is transforming the busi-ness and may increase the costsof international money trans-fers,” said Manuel Orozco, a sen-ior fellow at the Inter-AmericanDialogue, a research group inWashington.
JPMorgan Chase and Bank ofAmerica have scrapped low-costservices that allowed Mexicanimmigrants to send money totheir families across the border.The Spanish bank BBVA is re-portedly exploring the sale of itsunit that wires money to Mexicoand across Latin America. And in
BANKS CURTAILINGCASH TRANSFERS
Costs of Transactions
Are Likely to Rise
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six minutes early during a matchat the inaugural tournament, in1930, but the dramas of thisyear’s event — including a bi-zarre bite and a backbreakingtackle — have played out with aremarkable immediacy on socialmedia.
Over the last month, playerslike Neymar, Luis Suárez and theUnited States reserve forwardChris Wondolowski have offeredconfessions, explanations, inter-pretations and amplifications us-ing services like Twitter, You-Tube, Facebook and Instagram.
By SAM BORDEN
RIO DE JANEIRO — ZinedineZidane of France did not apolo-gize on MySpace after his infa-mous head butt in the 2006 WorldCup final. Diego Maradona of Ar-gentina did not address his 1986knuckle-assisted Hand of Godgoal on America Online, a digitalcommunity that did not becomeprominent for another five years.
Controversies have arisen inWorld Cups since a referee inad-vertently blew the final whistle
“If they can jump online, saysomething, and see it traversethe world in real time, it makeslife that much easier,” said PeterShankman, a social media con-sultant in New York.
Most recently, fans have beenfretting over an injury to Ney-mar, Brazil’s spindly star striker,who crumpled late in the secondhalf of a quarterfinal matchagainst Colombia after beingkneed in the lower back.
Screaming and crying, Ney-mar was taken off the field on astretcher, and it was later re-
vealed that he had a fracturedvertebra. He will miss the rest ofthe tournament, which has fourteams remaining from the origi-nal 32.
The player who kneed him,Juan Camilo Zúñiga, made only afleeting comment or two as herushed past members of the newsmedia after the game. It did nottake long for Zúñiga to begin re-ceiving death threats and racisttaunts from Brazilian fans onTwitter — one of the more print-able comments was that Zúñiga
World Cup Players Are Using Hands More Than Ever (to Tweet)
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By JASON HOROWITZ
Domenic Recchia thinksthere’s something for everyoneto loathe about the man he wantsto unseat in Congress, Michael G.Grimm.
There is that 20-count federalindictment, for starters, that ac-cuses Mr. Grimm, a two-term Re-publican from Staten Island, ofemploying illegal immigrantsand hiding around $1 million insales and wages at his Manhat-tan health-food restaurant,Healthalicious. Not the kind ofwork history, Mr. Recchia says,that is likely to impress the manyunion members who live in theneighborhoods of the 11th Dis-trict, encompassing Staten Islandand a slice of southern Brooklyn.
And then there are the dis-trict’s mothers and fathers, whoMr. Recchia, a Democrat, saysought to be appalled by Mr.Grimm for threatening, on cam-era, to toss a diminutive televi-sion reporter off a United StatesCapitol balcony — with the part-ing promise: “I’ll break you inhalf. Like a boy.”
“Michael Grimm should pick
Tough Guy Gets
A Matching Foe
On Staten Island
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More than 20 people were killed in at-tacks in which, residents said, many vic-tims’ throats had been slit. They werethe latest in a string of assaults with eth-nic undercurrents. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-7
Gruesome Attacks in Kenya
An influential environmental group fol-lowed an oil industry strategy to helpshape the Obama administration’s car-bon emissions policy. PAGE A9
NATIONAL A8-12
Carbon Plan’s Lobbying RootsThe Brooklyn Cyclones wore puffy pi-rate shirts and transformed MCU Parkin Coney Island into a one-night shrineto the television comedy. PAGE A14
NEW YORK A13-15
‘Seinfeld’ in the ParkNovak Djokovic, who had lost the lastthree Grand Slam finals he had playedin, squandered a big fourth-set lead
against RogerFederer but re-covered to winhis second Wim-bledon title.Federer was de-nied an eighth ti-tle that wouldhave made himthe oldest man towin Wimbledonin the Open era.
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SPORTSMONDAY
Back to His Winning WaysIt was an unglorious Fourth in movietheaters as ticket sales for this holidayweekend were the weakest in a decade.“Tammy,” the comedian Melissa McCar-thy’s road movie, with Susan Sarandon,pulled in far less than some estimates.The World Cup may have siphoned offsome viewers. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-7
Dud Weekend at the Box Office
Washington this week will start issuinglicenses to sell recreational marijuana.But residents are still divided. PAGE A8
Next Opening for MarijuanaAn electrical cord in a packed Brooklynapartment on the 19th floor started ablaze that killed a firefighter. PAGE A13
Firefighter Is Mourned
A Nevada city known for its well-worncasinos is recasting itself as a home fortechnology start-ups. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-5
Reno Looks to a Tech FutureIn the Amazon rain forest, a tournamentcalled the Peladão is equal parts soccerand beauty pageant. PAGE D1
SPORTSMONDAY D1-8
The Beautiful Game
Paul Krugman PAGE A17
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A16-17
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