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...many Orthodox Jews. His roommate, an Egyptian, discovered what he was up to and, aghast, tipped off local police, who foiled the plot with just hours to spare. Police found two fully rigged pipe bombs packed with nails and bullets in his apartment. Though the would-be suicide bomber wasn't working for any Palestinian group, his case suggests that Middle East violence could provoke independent attacks in the U.S. "One of the biggest dangers is that lone individual," says an FBI counterterror agent...
...madness. Let me not overstate the case; it is true that things were going downhill in the Middle East well before Sept. 11 and our president’s proclamation of war against terrorism. On the day I left last August, 18 people were killed by a suicide bomber in a Sbarro Restaurant in West Jerusalem that I walked by a dozen times in the previous five days. Yet, the events of the past week have demonstrated how hollow and insubstantial the Bush Doctrine really is, and the terrible consequences of it being...
Alternatively, the family of a suicide bomber could be targeted for deportation and property destruction. Suicide bombers can’t be deterred by threat of bodily harm, but they might be by consequences to their relatives...
...hand is outstretched in peace.” Yet just a few hours earlier, in a speech to a Palestinian woman’s group, he called for a “jihad” against Israel. Arafat’s message worked: the first female suicide bomber struck Israel that same day. A week later, in a Feb. 3 op-ed piece to the New York Times, Arafat wrote, “I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians.” This was his message to America and, ostensibly, to Israel. But Arafat...
...afar. If Israel wishes to protect its citizens, it must act with lethal force to stop those planning to use lethal force against it. I would like to ask those critical of Israel to think how they would feel upon having their son or daughter killed by a suicide bomber, all while more suicide bombers are trained with impunity and encouragement on Palestinian soil. Should Israel respond with violence? Israel has no choice...