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...operational brains as well. In 1973 an Israeli commando team, which included then-future Prime Minister Ehud Barak--disguised as a woman--wiped out several top Palestine Liberation Organization leaders in a raid in Beirut. The Israelis are still at it. A missile attack last month killed Abu Ali Mustafa, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as he sat at his desk in Ramallah...
...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...
...drew sharp international criticism. The European Union said it brokered the withdrawal in return for a commitment by Palestinians to stop gunmen firing at the nearby Jewish settlement of Gilo. But Israel was on alert for possible attacks to avenge the killing earlier in the week of Abu Ali Mustafa, the highest-ranking victim of Israel's assassination policy since the current intifadeh began...
...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...