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...first the boy's eyes. They held a strange and fractured gray-blue light. He pounded indignantly on the car in Gaza. He banged on it with a sort of symbolic fierceness. There was no murder in the eyes -- they were too innocent for that -- but there was something more difficult to know, a dreamy glaze, an enamel of unseeing. He and the other Palestinians, none older than 15 or so, came round and pounded on the car with fists. Their indignation was furious, but also a sort of abstraction, and mixed in it a fierce atmosphere of carnival...
...right-wing settlers' movement Gush Emunim, ''you doubt the very justice of Israel's right to be.'' To further intimidate any doubters, Israel has for the past 21 years established what it calls ''facts on the ground,'' settlements that have changed the face of the West Bank and Gaza. Some 67,000 settlers have moved into well over 100 new compounds. The settlements are almost always built on high ground, in order to command the surrounding countryside, and part of the rationale for the settlements was that they increased the country's security by providing an early-warning system...
...response. The violence settles into inevitabilities that seem tribal, and reach into history. In any case, this winter and beyond, as the miserable rains passed and a sweet spring came, with the almond and apricot trees in blossom, the Arabs in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, weary of their humiliations and broken hopes, have risen up to disturb Israel's birthday party, its sometime peace and its dream. For 2,000 years the thought of Zion warmed the minds of the world's scattered Jews. ''Next year in Jerusalem'' -- the prayer ended in an ardent sigh...
...Amid the ongoing bloodletting among Palestinians in Gaza - nearly 30 have been killed since fighting erupted last Thursday between gunmen of Hamas and Fatah - Israelis could be forgiven for thinking that Palestinians were too distracted to launch attacks on Israel. But the bakery attack was a grotesque reminder that some Palestinian groups still have Israel locked in their sights - and the authors of bombing may even have hoped to send a message to Hamas and Fatah, locked in a murderous power struggle, not to lose sight of their principal...
...Palestinian organizations claimed that Siksik had slipped over the border from Jordan, but an Israeli intelligence official told TIME that Siksik was tracked coming across from Egypt. These sources said the bomber had left Gaza and crossed through the Sinai desert mountains, picking up his suicide vest from cohorts along the way, and then cut across the frontier, probably guided by Bedouin smugglers, not far from where he was picked up hitch-hiking by the Israeli reservist...