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After months of searing criticism over a book comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore on Jan. 23. The Nobel Peace Prize winner signed copies of “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid” at the Harvard Coop while in town for a highly anticipated speech at Brandeis University. Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said he had ordered 1,600 copies of “Palestine” for the store. The hundreds...
...masked fighter of Islamic Jihad appeared on Palestinian television following the attack and read a statement announcing that the attack was intended as "a clear message to Palestinians that we must stop our internal fighting and aim our weapons at the Israeli occupation forces." Other Palestinians say this is a power play aimed at winning popular support for Islamic Jihad by showing that is the only group still fighting Israel...
...Palestinian organizations claimed that Siksik had slipped over the border from Jordan, but an Israeli intelligence official told TIME that Siksik was tracked coming across from Egypt. These sources said the bomber had left Gaza and crossed through the Sinai desert mountains, picking up his suicide vest from cohorts along the way, and then cut across the frontier, probably guided by Bedouin smugglers, not far from where he was picked up hitch-hiking by the Israeli reservist...
...Eilat bombing was the first suicide attack inside Israel in 10 months. Palestinians say this lull had been a result of Hamas, previously the main backers of suicide bombers, declaring a truce. However, Israeli intelligence claims that plenty of bombers are still trying to sneak over from the Palestinian territories, but that the long security fence and checkpoints along the roads have prevented more attacks...
...Israel's government now faces a dilemma: Should it retaliate for the Eilat bombing and risk uniting the warring Palestinian factions against the traditional common foe; or should it sit back and continue to watch Hamas and Fatah shoot each other in a growing civil war? The men who sent the bomber appear to have been betting on retaliation...