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When a 90-kg bomb buried in a rutted road took out a U.S. embassy convoy in Gaza last week, killing three Americans, the carnage brought to mind Iraq. It was the first time Americans, rather than Israelis, were fatally targeted by Palestinians inside the occupied territories. And unlike most suicide attacks in the region - but typical of the "Sunni triangle" north of Baghdad - no group claimed responsibility. That left investigators wondering who might be behind the bombing - and what it might portend. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other usual suspects denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone...
Israel must relinquish its claim over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in order to maintain a Jewish majority within the country, a prominent rabbi told nearly 100 listeners at Harvard Hillel last night...
...only solution is for Israel “to walk out of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, not because it is right or because it is just, but because our very survival depends on it,” Hertzberg said, thumping his fist against the podium and screaming into the microphone as audience members covered their ears...
...Gaza attack is an unmitigated catastrophe for the Palestinian Authority, which has been trying - mostly in vain - to persuade the U.S. to put pressure on the Sharon government over settlements, the separation fence, and the conditions of occupation, while fudging its own obligations under President Bush's "roadmap" to close down Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. The PA has vowed to investigate the attack with the help of the FBI. Such a probe could prove uncomfortable, given the fact that the attackers appear to have been aware of the schedule of the American convoy...
...Gaza attack is also a reminder of the dangerous fracturing of centralized command and control among Palestinian terror cells. Even during the ill-fated "hudna" cease-fire negotiated between the PA and representatives of Hamas, JI and the al-Aksa Brigades, it was clear that localized cells - such as the Hamas operatives in Hebron and some of the Al-Aksa structures in the northern West Bank, which Israeli intelligence believes had been penetrated by elements from Hezbollah - retained the capability and the intent to violently veto agreements reached by their political leadership. The attack in Gaza may be a sign...