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...they do it? In October 2003, a glamorous, well-to-do 29-year-old lawyer named Hanadi Jaradat calmly walked into a restaurant in Haifa and blew herself up, killing 21 Israelis and wounding 48 others. In her case, revenge was the motive: Israeli soldiers had raided her home, killing her brother and fiancé, both militants, as she helplessly watched. Several Palestinian intellectuals interviewed for this article declined to publicly challenge the accepted version that women are driven to become suicide bombers out of a desire to avenge Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israelis. But that...
...from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But whatever sense of security Israelis may have felt was shattered on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowded restaurant in Haifa, killing at least 19 people. The bomber--identified by the radical group Islamic Jihad as Hanadi Jaradat, from the West Bank city of Jenin--was believed to have acted in revenge for the killing of her brother and cousin by Israeli soldiers in June. She had apparently snuck into Israel through a section of the Green Line as yet unfenced. An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Abdullah...
...Jenin, they drive through the West Bank hills in a banged-up taxi and are greeted with friendly waves by Palestinians who clearly do not suspect that the men are Israeli infiltrators. Soon the commandos reach their destination, a small house outside Jenin. Inside, they hope to find Munir Jaradat, 18, allegedly a member of an armed Palestinian group that calls itself the Red Eagles. Weapons drawn, the soldiers storm the house, but they find only two frightened women, a boy and a younger child. No Jaradat. "Never mind," snaps the group commander. "Next time." Three weeks later, another commando...
...army insists that the soldiers are abiding by the rules. "We are not killers. We only try to catch the fugitives and make them talk," said Amir Rosenberg, one of the five commandos in the first raid in search of Jaradat; Rosenberg was shot to death by a Red Eagle last month. "I have no problem with what we do. Whom are we talking about? About people who have already killed or committed a terrorist act." Added a comrade: "Believe me, if we used our guns as freely as the media say, the ground would be littered with hundreds...
Clearly, mistakes -- sometimes lethal ones -- are made, a fact the army concedes and says it is working to avoid. Before the unsuccessful raid to find Jaradat, the commandos who led it made a dozen mock attacks in which soldiers played the roles of Palestinians in the house. Each drill tested the raiders' adherence to the open-fire regulations; often they failed, "shooting" a "suspect" who moved merely to put his hand in an empty pocket...
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