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...tanks may not have moved from Yasser Arafat's doorstep in two months, and his tanks and planes are pulverizing Palestinian targets, but it's the Israeli leader who now appears to be under siege. Israeli forces killed some 16 Palestinians Wednesday in raids across the West Bank and Gaza, as Sharon's administration launched what it called a "counter-guerrilla war" in the Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians were killed the previous day in retaliation for a dramatic guerrilla attack that killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. More than 40 people have died in a spasm...
...latest attacks continued a grim downturn in the fortunes of the Israeli Defense Force in the West Bank and Gaza over the past week. Tuesday night's casualty count will be made more painful by the fact that it followed last Friday's loss of a heavily-armored Merkava-3 battle tank and three of its crewmen to a sophisticated roadside bomb in Gaza. On the same day, the commander of Israel's most feared unit on the West Bank died under the collapsing wall of a house being destroyed by his forces. The escalating body count underscores...
...crack down on terrorism, and pays a political price for any perceived failure. Further, he believes the situation is deteriorating because of what he sees as negligence on the part of his security apparatus. Three months ago, Arafat reportedly unleashed a similar (though not physical) tirade against his Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan...
...don’t fret. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is a forgiving bunch. Withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza and maybe they’ll give you the prize too. Heck, I went from presiding over death squads to shaking hands with Nelson Mandela and sipping Dom Perignon in Oslo. And believe me, retiring as a Nobel laureate is a lot more fun than spending your final days in the Hague, awaiting an imminent war crimes indictment...
...addition of this homemade missile to the arsenal of Palestinian militants marks a serious escalation of their strategy to drive Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza by making the cost of remaining there too high. Recent months have seen a sharp increase in suicide bombings, and the Qassam-2 allows militants to strike inside Israel without having to cross heavily policed boundaries. Rocket attacks reminiscent of those used by Hezbollah in its protracted war that eventually forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon two years ago underline what Israeli commentators have called the "Lebanization" of the conflict...