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...both sides, the strategy appears to be a war of attrition: The Israelis want to make the cost of continuing the uprising unbearable for Palestinians; the Palestinian militants want to make the cost of maintaining an Israeli military and settler presence in the West Bank and Gaza unbearable for the Israelis. And this trial of strength creates something of a long-term political crisis for leaders on all sides...
...resolution for an international protection force right after a bombing attack on Palestinian targets. But the Israelis are saying the intensity of their campaign will be measured in relation to the intensity of the suicide bombings and other attacks. In Hebron, in particular, Sharon is under pressure from settlers there to retake the Abu Sneineh hill from which sniper fire killed a ten-month-old girl. Israel?s security service is concerned that if Sharon is not seen to be responding strongly, one of the settlers will turn around and pull a Baruch Goldstein, a terrorist action against Palestinians that...
...Israeli Reservations: The Israeli military is reluctant to leave the Jordan River valley, which is currently Israel's first line of defense against threats from the east. The generals have publicly warned Prime Minister Barak against accepting a deal that limits their access to the valley. And Israel?s settler community, which numbers some 200,000 in the West Bank, as well as their conservative and religious supporters, see the territory as part of the biblical land of Israel, and have vowed to resist ceding control...
...responsibility for the violence of the Aqsa intifadeh. If it were, Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority would surely bear at least an equal share with Israel's government. And Palestinian hard-liners have committed their own atrocities, beating two Israeli reservists to death and attacking an Israeli settler bus, killing two teachers and maiming several children. In the intense pressure of the urban battlefields, however, the high number of Palestinian deaths signals that Israel has not met its responsibility under the principles of the U.N. to rely on the "intentional lethal use of firearms only...when strictly unavoidable...
...kind of radio call Colonel Shlomo Dagan, commander of Israel's Southern Gaza Brigade, has been getting all too often lately--a report of another Israeli settler shot by Palestinians. When the call came last Tuesday, he gathered his flak jacket, his helmet and his men and rushed to the dangerous road linking the Gaza Strip's Jewish settlements to Israel. An 18-year-old Jewish settler lay dead in the passenger seat of a car, hit by sniper fire. Dagan, with his camouflage helmet perched on top of spiky blond hair, arrived in minutes and began shouting orders...