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...bakery, sending body parts and bread showering onto the pavement outside. Three Israelis were killed and two others wounded by the blast. Responsibility for the terror attack was immediately claimed by three different Palestinian militant groups, one of them - Islamic Jihad - identifying the bomber as Mohammed Siksik, 21, from Gaza...
...Harel, who consider Palestinian land to be their Jewish birthright. They tend to live in remote outposts, surrounded by hostile Palestinians and occasionally harassed by Israeli authorities under pressure from the international community to evacuate the settlements. In 2005, Israel did just that, withdrawing 9,053 settlers from the Gaza Strip, the first time in more than two decades that Israel had voluntarily given back occupied territory...
...evacuation of Gaza was supposed to be the first step in Israel's "disengagement" from the Palestinians, followed by withdrawal from settlements in the more historically and strategically important West Bank. Those plans were shelved last year by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as conflicts with militants from Hizballah and Hamas soured many Israeli officials on the idea of giving up any more ground. But Olmert is weighing a pullout again. The Bush Administration has signaled a new determination to forge a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And the success of those negotiations will hinge in part on whether...
...being detached from the realities on the ground is underscored by a Palestinian professor who had previously dealt with Rice: "She thinks of big issues as small ones,? he says. "She believed that Israelis could wipe out Hizballah, and she believes - mistakenly - that Abbas can wipe out Hamas from Gaza and the West Bank...
...then the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza which we worked very hard on. And I think if there's been a disappointment, it's that - the withdrawal itself went very, very well. But there hasn't been a - the Palestinians have not been able to control the territory...