Word: mobbing
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...occupied territories since the visit of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount two weeks ago reignited yesterday after a brief period of respite. Two Israeli reserve soldiers seeking shelter in a Palestinian police station in the West Bank town of Ramallah were killed by a mob of Palestinians; in retaliation, Israeli helicopter gunships used rockets to destroy the police building, a security forces headquarters and a radio and television station the Israelis accuse of having incited violence...
Recent hopes for a Mideast peace agreement were shattered yesterday, as Israeli helicopters launched rockets at Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in retaliation for the killing of three Israeli soldiers by a mob of enraged Palestinians...
...have not only dashed the fragile hopes for ending the current violence in the Palestinian territories; it may also symbolize Yasser Arafat?s increasing inability to rein in his own people. After two Israeli soldiers in the custody of the Palestinian police were beaten to death by a mob in Ramallah, Thursday, Israel ratcheted up the ante by firing rockets that destroyed the police station where its men had been held, and at targets in Gaza City, where Arafat was meeting CIA director George Tenet to discuss ways of ending the violence. By day?s end, Palestinian cities throughout...
...expressed alarm both at the mob killing in Ramallah and at the scale of the Israeli response. But the image most troubling to all those hoping to broker a new peace in the region may have been the incident in Ramallah. Palestinian police had apprehended a group of four Israeli soldiers in civilian clothes - on an undercover mission, say the Palestinians; lost on their way to their post, say the Israelis - and had taken them to the police station in the town. But as word spread that Israelis had been captured, a raging mob of up to 1,000 Palestinians...
Sure, the mob took over Russia, plutonium slipped into suspect hands, and the Balkans exploded, but the worst side effect of the end of the cold war is that beating the Russians has lost its meaning. If this were 1968 and an oversize farm boy from Afton, Wyo., beat Alexander Karelin, a giant 286-lb. Russian Greco-Roman wrestler who hadn't lost a match in 13 years, then Rulon Gardner would have his own Wheaties...