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...What about the attacks in Gaza - are we moving into a situation of war on two fronts...
...Sharon's message to the Palestinians is blunt: They shouldn't expect any more land than the less than half of the West Bank and Gaza they currently control, and there's no question of removing settlements dotted throughout those territories. And if they want to fight on against the Israeli occupation of the remainder of the West Bank and Gaza, he's happy to raise the stakes...
...charoset, a mixture of apples, wine, nuts and honey to remind us of the mortar that the Israelites had to use to build storehouses for the Egyptians. At our seder this year, the charoset reminded us of the buildings that were being torn down in the West Bank and Gaza and of the settlements that are expanding in violation of the Fourth Geneva convention. We were also reminded of the mortar shells that Palestinians are firing on those Jewish settlements...
...Pass, the daughter of Jewish settlers in the mostly Palestinian city of Hebron, who died last month when a sniper put a bullet, apparently intentionally, through her head. Last week, one-year-old Ariel Yered was critically wounded in a Palestinian mortar attack on the Atzmona settlement in the Gaza Strip. Almost 400 Palestinians and 65 Israelis have died since last fall, when peace negotiations imploded over the question of Jerusalem's status...
...political and military calculations in Lebanon are quite different from those in the West Bank and Gaza, and even Sharon's own foreign minister, Shimon Peres, is reported to have balked at the timing of the raid. (Peres has been holding talks in Israel with Jordan's foreign minister, who condemned the air strike as an "unjustified escalation.") Syria remains militarily the most powerful of Israel's neighbors, and its domestic political situation increases the danger of the latest Israeli action provoking further escalation. President Bashar Assad has not been tested since taking over the reins from his late father...