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...evening last summer I was chatting in a bar in Crete with a doctor from Tel Aviv, who was on vacation with his family. We talked about the Palestinian friends he hadn't seen since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh, his missions as a reservist in the Israeli army. I asked him how long he was staying in Crete. Just a few days, he said, then added wistfully, "Sometimes we just have to get away...
These days "getting away" is easier said than done. Ask the Israelis who arrived at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa just as bombs exploded there, killing three of them, or the passengers on the charter flight from Mombasa to Tel Aviv who barely escaped death by surface-to-air missile. Following the horror of the Bali bombings in October, the attacks in Kenya confirm that tourists are now in the terrorists' cross hairs. Soft targets, that euphemism of the month, seem to be softest when they're wearing shorts or sinking a few brews...
Leaders in Tel Aviv, Washington and Nairobi think they already know the culprit: al-Qaeda--either the network itself or perhaps a local clone. The assaults bore plenty of al-Qaeda's trademarks: double attacks, synchronized, well-organized and well-coordinated, based on good local surveillance and precision timing, in a part of East Africa where the terrorist organization has long operated. But because Israelis were the target, intelligence agents are looking hard at the possibility that Palestinians were somehow involved. U.S. and Israeli leaders took heart that the death toll was comparatively small because the jetliner attack had miraculously...
DIED. ABBA EBAN, 87, charismatic Israeli founding father whose skillful diplomacy and eloquent oratory helped build international support for Israel; near Tel Aviv. As ambassador to the U.N. and Washington and then as Israel's longest-serving Foreign Minister, Eban helped persuade the U.N. to approve the 1948 creation of the state and fervently defended Israel's aggressive actions in the pivotal 1967 war. Though he could be glib--he liked to say Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"--Eban was resolutely dovish, advocating an early land-for-peace deal. More popular with Jews abroad than with...
...DIED. ABBA EBAN, 87, former Israeli Foreign Minister and erudite scholar whose oratory captured the world's sympathy for the Jewish state in its early years; near Tel Aviv. In a hawkish environment, Eban urged a conciliatory approach toward the Arabs. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, Eban advocated withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. Remembered for his witty gibes, Eban often said the Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an oppor-tunity." Last year Eban was decorated with the Israel Prize, the nation's highest honor...