Word: palestinians
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This time Israeli television watchers needed no explanation of what the bearded men were doing with paint scrapers and plastic bags at Beit Lid junction in central Israel. They were representatives of the rabbinate, scouring the decimated bus stop for bits of human flesh blasted apart last week by Palestinian suicide bombers. Under Jewish law, the entire body must be given a proper burial. Viewers had seen the same ghastly task performed when another kamikaze bomber eviscerated a Tel Aviv bus, killing 22, only three months earlier...
Such scenes have been filling the airwaves like instant replay: four times in the past year, Palestinian militants have slipped into Israel and set off bombs killing a total of 60 and injuring 194. But Israel's agony is palpably greater over this latest atrocity. These victims were so young: all but one of the 21 dead Israelis were between the ages of 18 and 24. And all except one were soldiers, mainly members of the vanguard paratroopers unit. That may have made the attack seem like a legitimate act of guerrilla warfare to Palestinians. But the act of terror...
...months ago, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised his countrymen peace with security. Ever since, Israelis have enjoyed little peace and less security. Rabin's political stock has plummeted, and many citizens question whether the experiment in peacemaking should go on. The negotiations are stalemated by growing ill will and Palestinian anger over Israel's continued building of West Bank settlements. As the terrorists take the psychological initiative, the maneuvering room for both Rabin and Arafat is fast running...
...Israeli government, trying to save thePalestinian peace accordin the face of public outrage over the weekend bombing, launched an offensive against militant Muslim groups. One new idea: a $230 million electric fence to separate Israel from the West Bank's 1.2 million Palestinians. On the West Bank today, Israeli troops rounded up dozens of Muslim activists, ransacked a mosque and welded shut the doors of extremists' headquarters. PLO leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, blamed the Muslim groups for his failure to deliver peace with Israel in the territories, saying "those who broke the ceasefire now wanted nothing but to kill...
Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police exchanged gunfire at the main border crossing between their territories today. The incident followed another melee nearby on Monday night, when Israeli troops shot and killed three PLO officers. As many as four Palestinians -- including two police officers -- were wounded today after Israeli troops opened fire on a vehicle at the Erez crossing. Another PLO officer was wounded in a second clash nearby. In every incident, both sides insisted that the other had provoked the violence. The mounting violence threatens talks begun this week in Cairo over the question of extending Palestinian autonomy...