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...bomb Palestinian targets on the West Bank. Save for the times, places, weapons and targets, the attacks were almost predictable. And while the Israeli government blames the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Authority issues a routine denunciation of the murder of civilians, ordinary Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, having buried a number of their own this week, will be at best indifferent to the outrage committed in Netanya - even more so after the air strikes. The unrelenting violence that has followed the collapse of the peace process has left Israeli-Palestinian mutual hatred at an all-time high...
...handling the situation properly, for having no plan to deal with the difficulties created by the intifada. And the intifada has hardened the resolve of the Palestinian militants who believe that the armed struggle is the only way to get the Israelis out of the West Bank and Gaza, which is a problem for Arafat. Right now, though, the more immediate problem is that there's an atmosphere of war in Gaza...
TIME.com: Israel has in recent days launched sustained attacks on Palestinian Authority targets throughout the West Bank and Gaza, saying these are a "pro-active" response to continuing Palestinian attacks. What is Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's strategy...
...continuing to fight too high for the Palestinians, it doesn't seem to be having that effect. With Tuesday marking the anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel - an event called "Al Nakbah" (the catastrophe) by Palestinians - they're expecting trouble all over the West Bank and Gaza, and possibly even among Arab communities inside Israel. Still, Sharon has chosen the route of ratcheting up the pressure on Arafat, and he's not likely to change that decision...
...Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza appear to be emerging as a point of contention between Israel and the U.S. Washington has called on Israel to freeze settlement activity, in line with the recommendations of a Jordanian-Egyptian cease-fire proposal and also the conclusion of the Mitchell Report into the causes of the current violence. Yet Israel is strongly opposed to a blanket freeze on settlement activity...