Word: netanya
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...Still, the stakes are high enough this time to think that a cease-fire could happen. Wednesday's gruesome terror attack that killed 21 people and wounded more than 100 at a seder in Netanya brought swift condemnation from the U.S. and left Palestinians bracing for a forceful Israeli response. And if Arafat is not able to implement a cease-fire, an escalation of violence, which now seems imminent, may sound the death knell for General Anthony Zinni's diplomatic mission...
...mediation effort had been in trouble even before the Netanya carnage. Arafat's empty chair at Wednesday's Arab League summit signaled the Bush administration's failure to persuade Sharon to let the Palestinian leader travel to Beirut to lend his support to a Saudi proposal to normalize relations with Israel once it withdraws to its 1967 borders. And Arafat has been in no hurry either to take new action to rein in militants or sign on to a cease-fire plan his aides see as weighted in favor of the Israelis...
...Islamists who have always opposed the peace process appear to be reviving their tested tactic of stepping up terror strikes inside Israel proper to sabotage any movement back towards the negotiating table. On Wednesday, Islamic Jihad detonated a car bomb near a school in the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya, and further attacks are likely. Even more worrying for Arafat are the growing signs of factionalism within his own Fatah organization, whose militant rank and file shares the sentiment on the Palestinian street against resuming cooperation with Israel. On Tuesday, members of the Fatah Hawks organization kidnapped two Newsweek journalists...
...first time since 1967. They were responding to a deadly attack only hours beforehand. A suicide bomber belonging to the militant Hamas group killed himself and six other people and injured more than 100 others when he detonated explosives outside a shopping mall in the coastal town of Netanya. The Palestinian Authority condemned the bombing and called on the Israeli government to show restraint, but the Israeli cabinet was already meeting to decide its furious response. The airstrikes and artillery bombardment killed at least 20 people and wounded more than...
...Palestinian security forces over the past two weeks as part of a strategy to make the cost of continuing the uprising unbearable for the Palestinian Authority, and the latest strikes have ratcheted up the stakes. Israel holds Yasser Arafat's administration responsible for attacks such as the one in Netanya by failing to curb terrorist activity in areas under its control. The collapse of the peace process and the rising tide of violence has seen Arafat's security forces unwilling to act against Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militant groups they had previously policed - indeed, the rank and file...