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...what do the Israelis do next? Forced to fashion a tough response to two terror attacks in two days that left nine Israelis dead, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has few good options on the table. Indeed, the arrest of 21 male relatives of Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombers in order to exile them from the West Bank signaled Israel's despair - the move, yet to be legally approved by Israel's attorney general, would formalize the principle of collective punishment, and it raised alarm among Israeli human rights groups. But the fact that even dovish foreign minister Shimon Peres...
...that they have not been silenced. Israel blamed the Palestinian Authority for the attacks, although given the fact that most of the major West Bank towns are already in the hands of the Israeli military and under 24-hour curfew, it's not yet clear how the government of Ariel Sharon plans to retaliate...
...against wrongful dismissal, a proposal that even Stoiber, the conservative premier of Bavaria, is against. Complicating the FDP's outlook is an embarrassing controversy over anti-Semitism. J?rgen Möllemann, the party's deputy national leader, warned that prominent Jewish opposition to criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might be "liable to awaken anti-Semitic resentments." The comment caused an uproar because it seemed to repeat an old slur that Jews bring anti-Semitism on themselves. Möllemann later apologized to Jewish leaders, but the controversy continues to simmer. It's not clear from opinion polls whether...
...Afghanistan isn't the only extraneous concern. The unresolved question of the Palestinians remains a major obstacle to the U.S. finding any Arab support for a new war against Iraq. In its recent positions on the conflict, the Bush administration has essentially given Ariel Sharon carte blanche to do as he pleases in what had once been designated as Palestinian Authority-controlled territory. Despite a three-week lull in suicide bombings, there's little reason to believe Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities will break the pattern of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Whatever Washington's own priorities, its interventions...
...capture of Jerusalem's Old City by the Israelis in 1967, were taken by devout Christians and Jews alike as evidence of God's handiwork. Israel once again controlled the Temple Mount, a site so holy to Islam and Christianity as well as Judaism that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's simple act of visiting the mount was sufficient to ignite the current Palestinian uprising. The Temple Mount is the location of al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, and is also the very place where Christians and Jews believe a new temple must...