US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats – "I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was somehow involved in the attack," Dean wrote, describing how he had been under sharp criticism from Israeli politicians and media for his contacts with Palestinians. "Undoubtedly using a proxy, our ally Israel had tried to kill me."
Pew Research Center: Social Segregation – A 2007 Pew Research survey found that while a large majority of Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites (45%), blacks (35%) and Hispanics (39%) say they have "just a few" friends of a different race. About a third of whites and blacks say they have "some" friends of a different race, and very few say that either "all" or "most" are of a different race.
