Word: israel
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...responsibility for the blast. But Netanyahu, while touring a Jerusalem hospital filled with the wounded, vowed to back away from peace talks if Arafat doesn't crack down on the radical Islamists. Israelis again locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip, keeping 100,000 Palestinians who commute to Israel out of work, and rounded up suspected Islamist militants...
...Palestinians. Arafat's failure to cooperate with Israeli agents in monitoring and arresting Islamic extremists or to silence the rhetoric of violence that lends their acts legitimacy enraged and stiffened Netanyahu. In the aftermath of the July 30 Jerusalem bombing that took the lives of 15 victims and provoked Israel's punitive response, relations slid down to the level of name calling. Arafat made matters worse when he publicly embraced a Hamas leader at a so-called unity conference in Gaza. Netanyahu warned that the Palestinian chief may have given the "kiss of death" to the peace process...
...partnership. But these days he's drawing his own red lines, refusing both to come down hard on the Islamists and to convey to his people that violence is not an option. Nor do the Palestinians feel any confidence that they stand a chance with the pro-Israel Clinton Administration...
Stealing into enemy territory is always a risky venture, but Israeli military commanders didn't guess just how treacherous it would prove last week. In a botched special operation in southern Lebanon, Israel lost 11 elite commando fighters and a military doctor in a battle with local militias. It was the country's worst one-time loss in the 12 years it has maintained its "security zone" in southern Lebanon, a 5-mile-wide strip Israel occupies ostensibly to protect its northern border from attack. The debacle will undoubtedly sharpen opposition within Israel to continuing that presence...
...Israel's retreat around 4 a.m. without the missing commando was an agonizing one: dead and wounded are always brought home, and the decision to leave someone went all the way up to the Defense Minister and the military Chief of Staff. The Israelis concluded that the soldier, who had been carrying explosives, must have been blown to bits. Later someone from Hizballah found parts of his body and offered to trade them for Arab prisoners held by Israel...