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...self-flagellation Wednesday in the face of fierce international criticism over the civilian casualties. Israel's President Moshe Katsav, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and a number of military officials described the decision to drop a one-ton bomb in densely populated Gaza as a mistake. The IDF and the Shin Bet security service even launched an inquiry into the "intelligence failure" that resulted in such high civilian casualties...
...does not contribute to peace." Even in Israel itself, the decision to use a one-ton bomb dropped by an F-16 drew strong criticism, and even Israeli military officials called it an "error." Indeed, despite Sharon's lauding of the raid's "success," the Israeli Defense Force and Shin Bet security service on Wednesday launched an investigation into its failures...
...same time, the Bush Administration opted not to criticize Israel for threatening to march back into West Bank towns. For several weeks, Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter has told Sharon that the only way to prevent terrorist attacks is to take full control of Palestinian cities until a fence along the West Bank's border with Israel can be erected. Completing just the first phase of the wall could take as long as eight months to a year...
With Determined Path, Israeli security officials hope to finish what they started with Defensive Shield. Under U.S. and European pressure, Sharon wrapped up the first operation faster than the army or Shin Bet liked. The armed forces wanted four months; Sharon gave them one. By the time Israel ended the campaign in the final days of April, it had arrested Hamas' top and mid-level activists, according to Israeli intelligence, but hadn't worked down to the legmen who carry out surveillance on target locations and run errands for the bombmakers during the planning of operations. Of 90 activists...
...stop 100% of terrorist infiltrations," asserts Brigadier General Israel Yitzchak, who heads the Border Police unit responsible for patrolling the seam line between Israel and the West Bank. A fence constructed around the entire Gaza Strip in 1994 has proved valuable. According to Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security agency, not one suicide bomber has entered Israel from the Gaza Strip since the current uprising began. The new barrier, at least initially, won't completely fence off the West Bank. But it will make it much harder for Palestinians to cross between the militant hotbeds...