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...right. Israeli government sources told TIME that hours before the assault on Arafat's compound--retaliation for the Passover slaughter by a Hamas suicide bomber of 20 Israelis and a tourist in the seaside city of Netanya--Prime Minister Ariel Sharon informed members of his Cabinet that he wanted to send forces into Ramallah to arrest Arafat and expel him from the Palestinian territories. "We should send Arafat away, out of the country," Sharon said. "We should not let him stay." But the heads of Israel's intelligence and security agencies all argued that releasing Arafat from the four-month...
Among ordinary Israelis, the clamor to strike back with massive force for last week's Netanya massacre was overwhelming. In recent months, the scale and audacity of Palestinian attacks has steadily climbed, but for sheer barbarism, last Wednesday's assault was unmatched by any other in the 18-month intifadeh. The Hamas bomber timed the attack to kill Jews at the Park Hotel just as they sat down to the seder, a meal that celebrates the liberation of the Jews from the oppression of the biblical Pharaoh. Most of the victims were elderly Israelis. The terrorists plotted the Passover massacre...
...settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli officials tell TIME that Cabinet ministers agreed at once to hit back militarily, then debated for six hours how to punish Arafat. The Israelis are aware that Arafat cannot completely control Hamas, the Islamic group that carried out the Netanya massacre. But they complain that most of the time he doesn't even try. He has failed to arrest hundreds of militants from Hamas and its sister group, Islamic Jihad, which Israel has specifically identified on lists given to the Palestinian Authority. What's more, the Israelis say, by glorifying killers...
MIDDLE EAST More Violence and Vengeance It was so predictable. when a palestinian suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis celebrating the start of Passover at a hotel in the seaside town of Netanya, both sides knew that Israel would strike back. Tanks rolled into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah after the Israeli Cabinet agreed to an extended military operation and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had declared Arafat "an enemy." The onslaught, which drew heavy criticism from the U.N. Security Council, came a day after an Arab summit in Beirut, which Arafat was prevented from attending by Israel...
...wave of violence that began with the carnage in Netanya looks to have scotched General Anthony Zinni's mediation mission, even though the Bush administration insists its envoy will remain on the job. Sharon was never going to take seriously Arafat's eleventh-hour cease-fire plea as Israel began initiating its response to the Passover bombing. The Palestinian leader has been unwilling to commit to Zinni's cease-fire plan, and his reluctance to take a firm, principled stand against attacks on Israelis may be partly a reflection of the fact that polls routinely find that upwards...