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...other Palestinian-held cities beginning with Nablus, the sources say. By week's end Israeli tanks had rolled into the West Bank towns of Beit Jala and Beituniya. Israel began to activate 20,000 military reservists to prepare a supply of troops that can step in when the initial assault teams move...
Among ordinary Israelis, the clamor to strike back with massive force for last week's Netanya massacre was overwhelming. In recent months, the scale and audacity of Palestinian attacks has steadily climbed, but for sheer barbarism, last Wednesday's assault was unmatched by any other in the 18-month intifadeh. The Hamas bomber timed the attack to kill Jews at the Park Hotel just as they sat down to the seder, a meal that celebrates the liberation of the Jews from the oppression of the biblical Pharaoh. Most of the victims were elderly Israelis. The terrorists plotted the Passover massacre...
...gathered in Beirut last week said that if the Administration wants to keep its war on terror rolling, the U.S. had better intervene soon--and that, in Arab eyes, means leaning hard on Sharon. Diplomats in the region reacted furiously to Israel's decision to launch its assault on Arafat just as news of the historic Arab offer to normalize relations with Israel broke. On Friday officials from Morocco to Saudi Arabia implored the White House to put the brakes on Sharon's tanks. "People are extremely angry," says one Arab diplomat. "The perception is that the U.S. is giving...
...repeated scenes of violence, funerals and portraits of the dead are putting the population at large at risk of secondary trauma. With each new assault, many of our patients suffer a reactivation of earlier trauma. Others report feelings of great vulnerability because of their familiarity with a victim or their proximity to an attack. A colleague was shocked when her neighborhood cafe, which she had just left, exploded, along with its patrons...
Your map of the assault on the Shah-i-Kot Valley included a section with the heading "How the Battle Went Awry." Awry? Any battle in the past in which hundreds of enemy fighters were killed, compared with the loss of only eight of our own, is an overwhelming victory. As for the statement "One day, perhaps, Americans will tire of the slow drip of deaths...of the sort that old colonial powers like Britain and France once learned to endure," have you forgotten? We were savagely attacked by al-Qaeda and will not stop until we destroy them! MARTY...