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...stumbled again last week. Complications at the talks and unmet deadlines were punctuated with more violence, more revenge. Within an hour of the canceled Gaza ceremony, 90 miles away in northern Israel, a 25-year-old Palestinian blew up seven Israelis in a suicide attack in the town of Afula. The killer, a member of the anti-Arafat Islamic movement Hamas, detonated his car bomb alongside an Israeli bus as passengers, many of them teenagers, were boarding. Hamas promised that the attack would be the first of five in retaliation for February's rampage by an Israeli settler...
Upon the dissipation of the immediate tension from the Hebron massacre, the peace process was dealt another possible blow on April 6 and 7. In two separate Palestinian terrorist acts in the Israeli cities of Afula and Ashdod, eight Israelis were killed and 48 injured-bringing the number of Israelis killed by Palestinians since last September 13 to 38. The Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the Afula attack, and declared that four more attacks would be forthcoming, including one tomorrow, on Israel's Independence Day, that would "turn your independence day into hell...
...after the attacks, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel "will do whatever [it] can to continue the peace momentum." Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat passed on a chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply stated that it "expresses its regrets for the incident which took place in Afula and which cost the life of a number of citizens." After the massacre, Yitzhak Rabin had a very different reaction: "As a Jew, as an Israeli, I am shamed by the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate...
...Executive Committee member Yasser Abed-Rabbo, who said that "the deal is dying and the diplomatic process is reaching total impasse" in arguing for immediate negotiations on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Notwithstanding the terrible timing of this statement, coming so soon after Afula, Abed-Rabbo, and the PLO should realize that, at this time, the chances for success in negotiations over the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are nil. What should be pressed for instead is an accelerated implementation of the Palestinian self-rule agreed upon in the Declaration...
...avalanche of perhaps 8,000 calls to the White House Wednesday night. None, however, were from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir or his aides. "You don't resolve problems by impatience and rudeness," said Yossi Olmert, director of the government press office. In the northern town of Afula, where Foreign Minister David Levy was reported in good condition after being hospitalized with chest pains, Dr. Udi Cantor asserted that no phone calls were being put through to Levy's room. "But if Baker calls," he said, "we will transfer the call." An Israeli radio journalist added, "The number here...