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...soldiers in June. She had apparently snuck into Israel through a section of the Green Line as yet unfenced. An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Abdullah Shami, said the strike already showed the failure of the "racist isolation security fence." But the bombing is likely to spur Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into speeding up construction of the barrier, despite opposition from Washington...
...fence, and shot dead an Israeli soldier in revenge for the air raid. "It's a new era of terror," says Melzer, a lawyer in this northernmost Israeli town. "It's the most unpredictable time we've ever known." Israel leapt into the unknown last week, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the bombing of the camp in Syria, after an Oct. 4 suicide bomb in Haifa killed 20 Israelis. Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders in Lebanon braced for more attacks, while Melzer and the Israeli soldiers whose base looms above his home went on high alert for attempts...
...watched TV pictures of Palestinians rallying to Arafat's compound in Ramallah. "Ignoring him is better than making him the center of attention," said the official. There was little the State Department could do. After 2 1/2 years of trying--and failing--to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a glum official admitted, "We have no weight with the Israelis." Yet Sharon still fears the White House, so on Thursday night National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice called a senior Israeli official to try to get Jerusalem to back down from its pledge to eject Arafat. Washington has kept in constant...
...Road to Ruin "Road map to hell," about the bus bombing in Jerusalem and the escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians [Sept. 1], left one aspect unconsidered: since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cannot say publicly that he is against the road map for peace, he instead provokes Hamas and other Palestinian organizations by targeting their leaders. The Palestinians fall into the trap and overreact in seeking vengeance. Israel can then say the road map is not working and demand that the U.S. help crush Hamas and the Palestinians. If Israel were really interested in peace, it would have given...
...absence he felt of vital support from the U.S. And so Abbas simply walked away from what most observers had concluded months ago was an impossible mission: bridging the chasm between Yasser Arafat and the grassroots militants of the West Bank and Gaza, on the one hand, and Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush on the other...