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...area of the Gaza Strip patrolled by Dagan's troops, 10 Israelis have died in the past two weeks in terrorist shootings and bombings. In the same period, Dagan's troops have shot 10 Palestinians as they tried to break into Jewish settlements. Israel blames Arafat's top men, particularly Preventive Security chief Mohammed Dahlan. Dahlan's job is supposed to be suppressing Palestinian violence before it can threaten Arafat or Israel. In fact, Israelis charge, he is orchestrating the fighting. Last week one of Dahlan's men, still carrying his Israeli-issued ID card, crawled into the Kfar Darom...
...Israel's Southern Gaza Brigade, has been getting all too often lately--a report of another Israeli settler shot by Palestinians. When the call came last Tuesday, he gathered his flak jacket, his helmet and his men and rushed to the dangerous road linking the Gaza Strip's Jewish settlements to Israel. An 18-year-old Jewish settler lay dead in the passenger seat of a car, hit by sniper fire. Dagan, with his camouflage helmet perched on top of spiky blond hair, arrived in minutes and began shouting orders...
...Aqsa intifadeh's first weeks, the latest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians are what Israelis are calling a "near war." Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority is de-emphasizing both the demonstrations that cost so many Palestinian lives in the early weeks of the intifadeh and the rifle assaults on Jewish neighborhoods that drew tank and rocket attacks on Palestinian homes. Instead it seems Palestinian security forces are aiming to hit Jewish settlers and the soldiers who protect them...
...there is fierce fighting again between Israelis and Palestinians [WORLD, Nov. 13]. Why should anybody be surprised? It has been going on for as long as Islam, Judaism and Christianity have been around. And it will continue while Israel exists as a Jewish state and controls holy sites of two other major faiths. Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, will rebel to get back these sites. What ever happened to the lesson of sharing? JAMIL BATCHA, Age 16 Hunt Valley...
Despite the danger to their small children and themselves, the Jewish settlers here stay largely out of religious conviction, a belief that the land they occupy was deeded to the Jews by God. It's an opinion few share. The U.S. has repeatedly condemned the settlers, and even within Israel, many see them as an obstacle to peace. "You are endangering yourselves and us in vain with your hopeless obstinacy," novelist A.B. Yehoshua wrote in an Israeli paper last week...