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...sacred Western Wall. A bomb laced with ball bearings killed 20, wounded 100 and left searing images of tiny corpses on stretchers, screaming toddlers with scorched faces and hysterical parents. Six of the dead were children under 16. MARTYRS! REVENGE! shouted newspaper headlines. On Thursday afternoon on a crowded Gaza City street, five Hellfire missiles launched from Apache helicopter gunships slammed into a white Volkswagen Golf, incinerating Hamas political leader Ismail Abu Shanab and his two bodyguards. Fifteen bystanders were wounded. "Martyrs! Revenge!" shouted thousands of Palestinians as they dipped their hands in Abu Shanab's blood...
...gave Israel control of the remaining 25 percent of historic Palestine - the West Bank and Gaza, and of the 1 million Palestinians who lived there a number (that has swelled to 3 million today). Although the territories fell within the Biblical Land of Israel, they were not annexed for the simple reason that to do so would have meant making those Palestinians voting citizens of Israel - Israel?s Jewish population is 5 million, and the combined voting strength of the 1 million Israeli Arabs and the 3 million West Bank and Gaza Palestinians would give the country an Arab majority...
...under the Oslo Accords, the same sentiment remains central to the charter of Hamas, and the demand for ?liberating? all of Palestine remains a core element of Palestinian national identity. Acceptance of a two-state solution, which would give the Palestinians only 25 percent of the West Bank and Gaza is viewed as a compromise in the ranks of Palestinian nationalists, albeit a necessary...
...borders are the basis of an international consensus over solving the conflict, but neither side trusts the other to make peace based on separation along that border. After all, Palestinian suicide bombers are striking deep inside Israel, not simply at its soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And during the Oslo years, the Israeli settler population in the West Bank and Gaza doubled. The wall Israel is building as a de facto border to keep out suicide bombers doesn?t follow the 1967 ?Green Line? border between Israel and the West Bank; instead it appears designed...
...internationally enforced solution would need to provide the Israelis with cast-iron security guarantees as the basis for withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza. It would also have to recognize the legitimacy of their skepticism that such security could or would be provided simply...