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MIDDLE EAST More Violence and Vengeance It was so predictable. when a palestinian suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis celebrating the start of Passover at a hotel in the seaside town of Netanya, both sides knew that Israel would strike back. Tanks rolled into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah after the Israeli Cabinet agreed to an extended military operation and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had declared Arafat "an enemy." The onslaught, which drew heavy criticism from the U.N. Security Council, came a day after an Arab summit in Beirut, which Arafat was prevented from attending by Israel...
...terrorism, but also urged the Israeli government to "make sure there's a path to peace." Both calls, right now, look like wishful thinking. Nobody had expected Ariel Sharon to embrace the Arab League's latest peace offer, and not only because it came the day after a suicide bomber had marked the start of Passover by killing 22 Israelis at a seder. The Saudi idea of peace - Israel withdrawing to its 1967 borders - has long been anathema to Sharon, who has always maintained that the territories captured in that year give Israel the "strategic depth" vital to its defense...
...blew up an Israeli Merkava tank, killing three soldiers. Also last week Israel's Shin Bet security service foiled three separate bombing plots set to coincide with Zinni's arrival. In one incident near the Jewish settlement of Rimonin, Israeli forces blew up a car carrying an alleged suicide bomber on his way to Jerusalem...
...Noted "Thank God for everything, my son will go to heaven." TAHSEEN DIYAK, father of Palestinian suicide bomber Rafat Abu Diyak, who blew himself up on a bus in Israel last week, killing seven Israelis...
...envoy Anthony Zinni to discuss the plan drawn up last year by CIA director George Tenet, which requires withdrawal to positions held before the start of the Aqsa intifadeh 18 months ago. The two sides failed to reach agreement, and the Israelis called a halt when a bomber killed himself and three others near shops in West Jerusalem, only a day after a similar attack on a bus killed seven. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks. After Zinni met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and then met Arafat separately, talks resumed, but without resolution. More talks were planned...