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...sides appear further than ever from reaching a truce, much less from concluding any sort of political agreements. Palestinian militants continue to fire mortars and rifles at Israeli positions and settlements, and Israel this week intercepted a shipment of weapons bound for Gaza from Lebanon, which included Katyusha rockets and surface-to-air missiles, and told the Israeli media they believe at least two such shipments got through before this one. In other words, Israel is bracing for a serious escalation of Palestinian guerrilla actions. And Israeli military sources warned Friday that the Fatah movement of their erstwhile negotiating partner...
...staff editorial “Powell Strong, But Not Enough,” (Editorial, May 2) praised the Secretary of State for criticizing Israel's efforts to end deadly Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks. The editorial called Israel's reaction to the Palestinian attacks “aggressive” and stated that it “represented a drastic escalation of the ongoing unrest in the region...
...tunnel rat (responsible for clearing out enemy tunnels) in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Infantry. We were passing by a monastery when mortars started flying at us. Guys were screaming and yelling, "Mom!" I was 18 years old. I was scared. I had a rocket launcher, and I fired it into the monastery. It went quiet. When we went in to look, there were a lot of dead. A French priest and some nuns. That's what war is. You can't describe it. It sounds crude, but you just had to be there...
...Indeed, the current state of "dialogue" between Israel and Syria may be revealed in the contents of a fishing boat intercepted near Haifa en route from Lebanon to Gaza on Monday. Israeli authorities said the vessel contained rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets, the artillery-of-choice of Hezbollah. The Iran-backed Lebanese militia which has periodically acted as a Syrian proxy has formed Palestinian cells in Gaza, which have been behind the mortar attacks on Israeli settlements in that territory. If the rockets intercepted by the Israelis were indeed sent by Hezbollah - which may provoke a sharp Israeli response...
...hatch if he showed up--triggering an international diplomatic incident--or to convince Russia that the investment tycoon was unqualified for space flight. NASA tried the latter, but it was tough given Tito's background. He may not be a cosmonaut, but he is an actual rocket scientist who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before becoming a successful businessman. (He founded the investment firm Wilshire Associates.) He also completed some 900 hours of training in Star City, the cosmonauts' boot camp, and was deemed flightworthy by Russia's space commission. So on Thursday NASA had Tito sign...