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...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. The leaders...
...What is he doing in Ramallah? His history is not a history of a peace-loving man. But I paraphrase Clemenceau: Peace is too important to leave to the politicians. If it is peace the Israelis want, it is there for the taking. All the past Israeli governments have been equivocating with us, making demands that are not tenable. If they want peace, then peace they will have if they return the territory. We know what kind of anxiety exists there. Their former Prime Minister, Mr. Rabin, said, "Enough is enough." Enough is enough...
...Israelis with her. Elsewhere, an Islamic Jihad militant killed two Israelis in the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, and four more died at the hands of a Hamas gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Eilon Moreh. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli incursion into Ramallah, and it's likely that figure will climb in the days ahead - the incursion would last weeks, Sharon promised, even in the face of international criticism...
Saturday evening, when Israelis go out on the town celebrating the end of the Sabbath, has long been a favorite killing hour for Palestinian suicide bombers. This week was no exception, despite the presence of large numbers of Israeli troops in Yasser Arafat's offices and throughout Ramallah and other West Bank towns. A member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, linked with Arafat's own Fatah organization, detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv coffee bar Saturday night, killing himself and wounding more than 30 Israelis in a stark reminder that even an Israeli military operation that has sparked...
...Israeli troops stormed Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound early Friday, exchanging fire with his bodyguards. The object, said Israel's defense minister, was not to kill Arafat, but to "totally isolate" him. It was a compromise between cabinet hawks who favor expelling or otherwise disposing of the Palestinian leader, and doves who see that as posing even greater perils...