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...Arafat packing. "We have to throw him out," the former Israeli Prime Minister tells a gathering of 600 activists from his right-wing Likud Party. "Put him on a plane out of here." The Likud supporters, who have come from all over northern Israel to the port city of Haifa to hear him speak, rise to their feet and drown out the DJ with a rhythmic chant of Netanyahu's nickname...
...relations began on Saturday night, Dec. 1, when two Palestinian bombers struck a busy cluster of cafes along a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem, killing 10 Israelis, not one of them older than 21. The next day, another terrorist blew himself up on a bus in the northern city of Haifa, killing 15 riders, mostly old people. The perpetrators--as well as the bomber who exploded outside a Jerusalem hotel on Wednesday, killing himself alone and blowing his head through a window of the establishment's fifth floor--were from the militant Islamic organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad rather than factions...
...After being largely sidelined by the Oslo peace process, Hamas is now back at center stage in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Western governments, Israel and many Palestinians believe the group represents a major threat to regional stability. Less than a week after devastating Hamas suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, and as Hamas activists were being rounded up by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Abu Marzook outlined his defiant perspective from the group's exile base in the Syrian capital. Excerpts...
...Palestinian terrorist group Hamas claimed credit for the murders as retaliation for the killing of a senior Hamas leader by the Israeli army. The group also claimed responsibility for a suicide bus bombing in Haifa on Sunday morning that left 15 Israeli civilians dead. The death toll may rise as those who were wounded die of their injuries. The attacks that Israel endured over the weekend were among the most deadly of the latest intifada...
...Twelve hours later, in the northern city of Haifa, another bomb ripped through a city passenger bus, killing 16 people and wounding many others. The Palestinian group Hamas has allegedly claimed responsibility for all of the attacks...