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...unknown radical Islamic group claimed responsibility for the attack, the Palestinian Authority claimed that the 34-year-old driver, who had worked for an Israeli bus company for five years, had acted alone. The driver was captured by Israeli security forces as he tried to flee back to Gaza...
...differently at a tactical level to respond to attacks such as the one that occurred Wednesday - indeed, he's trying to persuade Barak to stay on as his defense minister. Whether that retaliation takes the form of mass punishment of the Palestinians through blockading the West Bank and Gaza, or more targeted efforts such as Tuesday's assassination, it's been done before. And yet the attacks continue...
...with the Palestinians. The broad terms of that unity-government agreement will be an undertaking by Sharon to respect existing treaties with the Palestinians signed by his predecessors; concerted efforts to make peace with Israel's neighbors; and a moratorium on new Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And there's no difficulty in any of those conditions for Sharon - he'd previously vowed to abide by signed agreements with the Palestinians but not the offers made by Barak. And settlement activity had actually increased under Barak, less in the form of new settlements than in the expansion...
...agreements, of course, will require something of a mind shift on the Palestinian side, too. Two weeks ago their negotiators were meeting Israel's acting foreign minister in the Sinai to hammer out the details of proposals to hand over 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, and divide up Jerusalem. But "concessions" for Sharon are more likely to involve such moves as lifting Israel's security closure of Palestinian territories and opening a safe passage route between the West Bank and Gaza, rather than withdrawing from much of the 55 percent of the West Bank still...
...want to do any more land transfers, but that doesn't mean he won't if he judges it to be in Israel's best security interests. Otherwise he could offer to lift Israel's closure of the West Bank and Gaza, and implement a number of smaller proposals - such as a safe-passage route between the two Palestinian territories - that have previously been agreed but never implemented. But it won't be anywhere near the scale of things envisaged at Camp David. But then, unlike Barak, Sharon won't be asking Arafat to make a statement declaring that...