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MIDDLE EAST Mass Curfew Fails to Bring Security to Israel Two islamic jihad suicide bombers blew themselves up in a non-Jewish Tel Aviv neighborhood, killing three bystanders and injuring more than 40 others. Earlier, eight people were killed and 20 wounded when an Israeli bus carrying settlers was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen inside the West Bank. The attacks showed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policy of occupying West Bank towns and imposing a curfew on the Palestinian population has not destroyed the militants' ability to strike. The gunmen, dressed in Israeli military uniform, set off a roadside...
...Three months ago, Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombing and Tuesday's ambush of a busload of settlers at the Immanuel settlement might have triggered an invasion of Palestinian cities and air strikes on Palestinian Authority security installations. But the seven major Palestinian cities on the West Bank, whence the culprits in the latest attacks are likely to have come, have been under the control of the Israeli Defense Force for the past three weeks, with residents - and PA security personnel - subject to almost constant curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority...
...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...
...Palestinian suicide bombers killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv, late Wednesday, one day after an ambush on a busload of Israeli settlers on the West Bank left seven dead. But although the latest attacks coincided with Mideast talks in New York between representatives of the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, their purpose is unlikely to have been simply to derail diplomacy - because neither the extremists nor anyone else in the Middle East have much reason to suspect that the current round of talks will have much significance for the situation on the ground...
Egyptian-born Mona Baker, a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, said Saturday that she had dismissed Miriam Shlesinger of Bar Ilan University and Gideon Toury of Tel Aviv University from two journals she owns because they are Israeli...