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...first, the Palestinians considered themselves lucky. Captured fighters later told Israeli interrogators they had expected an air strike. The Israelis had repeatedly bombed police barracks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; they didn't seem eager to risk the casualties of house-to-house combat. Ata Abu Roumeileh, a leader of the Fatah gunmen in the camp, now in hiding, told TIME that it was only when his forces saw the Israelis advancing on foot that they decided to stay and fight...
...restated longstanding Likud policy, it was a calculated bid by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unseat Sharon. Netanyahu's calculation: The vote will make Sharon's job more difficult because he has to deal with the political and diplomatic reality that Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza is endorsed not only by the United States and the entire international community (the exceptions being those regimes that deny Israel's right to exist). The latest polls show statehood is also accepted by upward of 70 percent of Israeli voters as part of a final peace agreement. But Netanyahu...
...minister, to observe it - by withdrawing from Hebron, for example - while Sharon snapped at his heels from the right. It is an unwritten rule of Israeli politics that no prime minister can afford to defy Washington for any length of time, and Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza is no longer even up for discussion in U.S. foreign policy - never mind in the Arab world where Israel must ultimately seek peace partners...
...church. In an agreement brokered by European Union representatives, 13 of the besieged, described by Israeli authorities as "senior terrorists," were flown to Cyprus, where they will remain until other arrangements are made for their exile. As a further 26 survivors of the siege were taken to Gaza, Israel withdrew all its troops from Bethlehem. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that he expected a "careful and measured" military response to a suicide bombing earlier in the week that had killed 16 Israelis and wounded 57 at a snooker club in the northern town of Rishon Lezion. In Gaza the Palestinian...
...need to head off the challenge from within Likud raises pressure on Sharon to mount a hard-hitting military operation in Gaza in response the Rishon Letzion bombing. But that pressure may be counterbalanced by concern that a new upsurge of fighting in Gaza could set off a chain reaction that once again tips the balance in the Bush administration towards a more forceful push for peace. Whatever course Israel chooses, the Gaza dilemma highlights the extent to which Washington's recent piecemeal efforts to stabilize the situation have not filled the security and political vacuum left in the wake...