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TIME.com: How have Israelis responded to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to bomb the West Bank with F-16s on Friday...
...just as well she didn't: she may not have survived the short truck ride. When the convoy rolled out, leaving Ma'rus and her daughter behind, it was escorted by squads from the Mobile Police Brigade, the national force's paramilitary troops. Despite the matte black M-16s they carry, the teenagers who make up the rank and file of the Brimob, as Indonesians call it, have a serious inferiority complex. In their gray and chocolate-colored uniforms, they resemble private security guards more than crack troops, something they are painfully conscious of, especially when they meet up with...
...handful of policemen guarding the refugees fled when the violence began around 10 p.m., even though they were armed with M-16s. (The murderers had machetes, axes and a few homemade guns.) They came back at about one in the morning, Diran says, finally stopping the slaughter. Forewarned that the police were on their way, the murderers climbed back into their trucks and fled. The final toll on the soccer field: 26 men, 64 women, 20 children and 8 babies...
...have to understand that this is no longer about an intifada. Where are the marches and demonstrations, or the civil disobedience? It's gone; it's history now. Nobody is talking intifada. Bullets are talking; M-16s and Kalashnikovs are talking. But this is not an intifada. If you want to win world public opinion, you don't shoot at Gilo. All that achieves is the destruction of 200 Palestinian houses, so it's a losing battle. If you want to fight, you have to have a strategy, and part of that program is that you can't allow your...
...half-cocked, profoundly unwell supporting characters. Take Max Sharpe, an Ehrlichman understudy whose assignment is to persuade folks in TV land to turn off Vietnam and watch some other show. It's grim out there on this December weekend in 1970; all sex and drugs and riots and M-16s. Nixon's team will have to work overtime to make sure the country has a Merry Christmas...