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...Sharon was elected on promises to restore Israel's security, a goal he has pursued by steadily upping the military ante: Air strikes using F-16s, a systematic campaign of assassinating individual Palestinian militants, and periodic invasions of Palestinian Authority-controlled territory all raised warning signals and murmurs of disapproval from Washington, but by repeated use Sharon has made them par for the course...
...cops. "Be on the lookout for mysterious health symptoms," said health czar Tommy Thompson, but who doesn't have those? We were told last week not to panic but to be prepared; to get on with our lives, even though we barely recognize them now that there are F-16s overhead and National Guardsmen at the train station. The Vice President is in the witness-protection program, and the FBI initially coded its Thursday warning of an imminent attack "skyfall." Officials were vague about the target but precise about the timing. They had "certain information" that there would be more...
...Protective air cover may be laid down from above by Apache choppers, AC-130 gunships and F-16s equipped for ground attack...
...Israelis own lots of guns, and they pack them more openly. Israel may be the only country where, unless you look like a Palestinian, you can enter a bank with a machine gun. In Israeli cities, soldiers are everywhere. In recent weeks, New Yorkers were astonished to see F-16s flying overhead. In Israel, warplanes are no more unusual in the sky than hawks. Police cars in Israel keep their blue lights flashing at all times as a deterrent to would-be attackers. When I first arrived, it unnerved me. Soon it was just the way things were...
...place was cleared out. Half the unit had left Saturday, M-16s on their shoulders, for the first shift of a long-ago scheduled three-week mission to Egypt. The rest of us are set to join them in a week or so. None of us may be coming back for a while. I might be called up; I may be going...