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...recommended adding "and subsequent destruction in the West Bank and Gaza" to the first prhase, "In response to the recent terrorist bombings in Israel;" and changing "condemn the recent terrorist bombings in Israel" to "condemn the recent terrorism in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and consequent retaliatory measures taken against innocent civillians." In addition, we hoped to add a phrase mentioning support of peace and justice, which were nowhere mentioned in the statement as it was given to us, and specifically naming the mosque in Hebron as the Ibrahimi mosque...
...downtown Tel Aviv amid a crowd of schoolchildren, killing 13 people. After the fourth such atrocity in little more than a week, even the most liberal leaders within the Israeli government sought vengeance. With a mob outside screaming for blood, ministers advocated sending Israeli troops to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. Others prescribed mass deportations of Palestinians. One even urged razing the villages from which the bombers came...
...have none of this talk of wild retribution. "He was like a rock," says Uri Dromi, director of the government press office. "He never lost his calm, never raised his voice. He listened to everyone, and then he said, 'Please, let's not waste time. If we return to Gaza, then what? If we reoccupy Nablus, then what? Please, give me viable suggestions...
...perform. Previously, the Prime Minister insisted that the peace process should continue regardless of the level of terrorism. Now he has explicitly linked continued concessions to the Palestinian Authority's success in breaking the Islamists. He has also indefinitely sealed Israel's borders with the West Bank and Gaza Strip--a measure that costs Palestinians $1.2 million daily in lost earnings. With few exceptions, P.A. officials, including Arafat, were forbidden to travel into Israel or through it to get between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. "Arafat is now a prisoner in Gaza," says an Israeli Defense Ministry official...
...Peres' threat, Israeli officers are loath to blatantly re-enter land under P.A. control and risk a broad confrontation between Israel's forces and Arafat's. The military would favor covert operations in Arafat's jurisdiction, like the assassination in January of Hamas' master bombmaker, Yehia Ayyash, in the Gaza Strip. Says the Defense Ministry official: "If we have intelligence about someone in Arafat's zones, we'll give the information to the P.A. And if they won't move, we'll act, but only through commando operations." Those operations would also violate the accords, and Arafat would surely object...