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...when Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin deported 400 Hamas activists, the world reacted with disgust and indignation. Rabin had to revoke this action and allow the Hamas terrorists to return to Israeli soil. In stark contrast, following the recent killing of 23 civilians in a bus explosion in Tel-Aviv, Israel has been granted full international support for its declaration of an all-out assault on Hamas...
Preceding the deportation, on November 21, 1992, a Hamas car bomb that was set to go off in a crowded site in Or Yehuda (a suburb of Tel-Aviv) was foiled by the Israeli security forces. On December 7, 1992, Hamas activists killed three Israeli reserve soldiers. On December 13, 1992, Hamas kidnapped and murdered border policeman Nissim Toledano. These are but a few of the terrorist attacks that precipitated Rabin's deportation order...
...Hamas members, Israel was in a strong position. True, there were the terrorist attacks that prompted the deportation, but they were not considered severe enough to render the Israelis weak or vulnerable. Suddenly, an attack in the center of Jerusalem and an attack in the center of Tel-Aviv made Israelis vulnerable and the fickle pendulum of justice shifted to Israel's side...
When the Palestinian extremist group Hamas unleashed a blitz of bloodshed on Israel in mid-October, climaxing in the suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv bus that left 23 dead, it meant to escalate the conflict between Arab and Jew to a more vicious level. Last week Israel gave an uncompromising answer to the challenge. Through leaks to the media, Israeli security officials let it be known that "this is now a war with gloves off. Whatever is needed to neutralize these people, whether it's to put them in jail or whatever, will be done...
...wanted list is Yehia Ayyash, 29, an electrical engineer from the West Bank village of Rafat, who is known within Hamas as "the engineer." According to Israeli and Hamas sources, he is the movement's master bombmaker, who probably built the TNT device used in Tel Aviv...