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...fight, he said, would be carried forward by Palestinian children. And even as he made this vow, a teenage girl from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket, taking two Israelis with her. Elsewhere, an Islamic Jihad militant killed two Israelis in the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, and four more died at the hands of a Hamas gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Eilon Moreh. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli incursion into Ramallah, and it's likely that figure will climb in the days ahead - the incursion would...
...seder. The Saudi idea of peace - Israel withdrawing to its 1967 borders - has long been anathema to Sharon, who has always maintained that the territories captured in that year give Israel the "strategic depth" vital to its defense. Still, the ongoing battle in the West Bank and Gaza that now rages with renewed fury may eventually cause Israel to rethink that theory...
...reluctance to take a firm, principled stand against attacks on Israelis may be partly a reflection of the fact that polls routinely find that upwards of 80 percent of Palestinians support acts of violence as a way of ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. So, the situation is likely to escalate quickly now back to the crisis levels that prompted President Bush to send his envoy in the first place. And that's bad news for a U.S. administration whose foreign policy objectives in the Middle East depend, at least in part, on calming the Israeli...
...truce were more conducive than they'd been during his aborted mission last December - indeed, it was the further deterioration of the situation, rather than its improvement, that forced the Bush administration to send him back. What had changed was that the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza had clearly begun to interfere with Washington's efforts to court Arab support against Saddam Hussein...
...popularity has plummeted because of his inability to restore security. But his Palestinian counterparts see little value in a cease-fire for its own sake; its only value to them is as a stepping stone to negotiating Palestinian statehood and Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank and Gaza. Sharon needs to show progress on security; Arafat needs to show progress on ending the occupation...