Word: mustafa
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...Gilo neighborhood on the edge of Jerusalem. Two weeks ago, Sharon said the next time a Palestinian shot "a single bullet" at Gilo, he'd invade Beit Jala. On Monday, after an Israeli missile killed the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Ali Mustafa, the bullets flew. Government ministers say Sharon felt he had put his credibility on the line. Israeli tanks and infantry dug in at the top of the hill where Beit Jala sits, overlooking Bethlehem. But the shooting continued. Sharon told Peres to call Arafat again. "If they stop the shooting...
...wars throughout history armies do kill enemy soldiers. This is an unfortunate but universal fact of life. Was Abu Ali Mustafa an enemy soldier or just a political or an ideological figure? I don't know. I think that in this horrible battle Israel is entitled to defend itself, though not by hurting or killing innocent civilians, not by killing politicians, ideologists or even dreadful inciters and agitators. With a heavy heart, I justify the killing of Palestinian fighters, uniformed or not, but of no one else. The term assassination is a very misleading one. Killing unarmed civilians is assassination...
...Israeli operation began late Monday, with the purpose of stopping a fusillade a sniper fire sparked by that day's assassination of radical Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa. The shooting prompted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to make good on a previous warning that Israel would not tolerate any further gunfire directed at Gilo, which Israel regards as part of Jerusalem but the Palestinians see as a settlement because it was built on land annexed after 1967. Beit Jala is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village that lies across a ravine within rifle range, and its residents have repeatedly complained to Arafat...
...positions in their building. The State Department specifically appealed for the safety of the children. Coming as it did on the heels of a similar reprimand over the fact that a family of Americans had been in the Ramallah building struck by the Israeli rockets that killed Abu Ali Mustafa on Monday, the Beit Jala incursion was clearly hurting Israel's image in the West. And the U.S. was using its strongest language to date to condemn the action...
...gunmen in Beit Jala, after all, are not from the village. They use it as a firing position because of its proximity to an Israeli neighborhood. On Monday they arrived to vent their rage over Israel's killing of Abu Ali Mustafa. Now they may be prepared to withdraw for a time. But it's a safe bet that when next they're looking to respond to some blow suffered elsewhere, Gilo will once again look like a tempting target - even more so for the diplomatic crisis the resultant battle will provoke...