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...Sharon needs to show Israelis that he's hitting back at the Palestinians, after the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi two weeks ago by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. But truly cutting the power of the Palestinian militias would require putting special units in harm's way. So far, Sharon has been reluctant to risk casualties, preferring to keep his men largely encased in armor. In any case, he's conducting a military campaign with an eye on Washington and his own dovish Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...
...fought gunbattles with Palestinian militiamen. Instead, it was small undercover units that made a series of successful snatches. Sources in the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service tell Time that officers from the Jerusalem police's "Gidonim" undercover unit nabbed Mahmed Rimawi, one of the gang that killed Ze'evi, from a hideout in the hostile Kalandia refugee camp. Another undercover team found a second member of the hit squad, Salah Alawi, hiding under a car outside his house in Azzariyeh, on the edge of Jerusalem. And in the West Bank village of Doura, the "Yamas Ayosh" undercover unit...
...recent assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi serves to highlight the incredible disparity between Arafat’s public statements and the actions of Palestinian groups on the ground. Following intense pressure from Israel, and probably from his own advisors, to consolidate his power and control his people, Arafat declared any group disobeying him to be illegal. Should he elect to follow through on this threat, Arafat may find himself facing the frightening prospect of a civil war in the occupied territories...
...course the argument isn’t one-sided; it never is. Palestinian acts of terror in past years, including the assassination of Israeli politician Rehavam Ze’evi last Tuesday, are reprehensible. Americans now know the fear in which Israelis live on a daily basis. Israel has not known a single act so terrible as that which occurred Sept. 11, but the constant, omnipresent fear of a lone man in a marketplace killing himself to annihilate anyone nearby may be even more terrifying...
...should be especially careful in its response to Israeli assassinations of suspected terrorists and the assassination of Ze’evi, especially as we have claimed as our purpose to search out and bring to justice the men who were individually responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. If we in the U.S. are to make the difficult distinction between the violence of terrorism and the violence of retaliation, we must be willing to apply these terms to Israeli and Palestinian violence as well. Just as it would be horrific to kill a member of the U.S. cabinet over anger...