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...last Thursday's attack on a Bat Mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera, where a Palestinian gunman shot dead six revelers. The terrorists, in both instances, were sent not by Hamas, but by the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - an armed group linked with Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, which claimed to be avenging last week's assassination of one of its local leaders. And, once the Jerusalem shooter's address and affiliations are firmly established, expect to see further Israeli action - and further terror attacks...
...Prime Minister Sharon's military actions in ending armed action by militant Palestinian groups. A faint glimmer of hope followed Arafat's December call, with even the Israeli military acknowledging that a period of relative calm had followed. That, of course, was because the militants of Arafat's own Fatah organization and also radical Islamist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, had signed on. But in the absence of any paradigm-shifting breakthrough, the respite was always going to be temporary. A week into January, Hamas broke its silence with an attack on a military outpost on the Israeli...
...guess yesterday about how this week would go," wrote Amos Harel. "From the first reports about the assassination of Tul Karm's Raed Karmi, any Israeli or Palestinian alumnus of the past 15 months could come up with an accurate prognosis of what would happen: Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly in the northern sector; a harsh military response by Israel in the territories followed by renewed Palestinian attempts to conduct suicide bombings inside the Green Line (the border that divides...
...week ago the militant Islamist organization Hamas signaled the end of its own undertaking to suspend actions inside Israel, by attacking a military post on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Then came Karni's slaying - Israel insists he was planning terror attacks - and the Fatah-linked Al Aqsa Brigades proclaimed that "the hoax of the so-called cease-fire is cancelled, cancelled, cancelled...
...week's end, though, the Guantanamo issue had been supplanted on the front pages by gruesome tales of the terror attack in the northern Israeli town of Hadera. Haaretz commentator Amos Harel could be forgiven for his eerily prescient prediction of the aftermath of last weekend's assassination of Fatah militant Raed Karmi: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," Harel wrote a day before the Hadera attack. "Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number...