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...their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front, a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells Time that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat?s Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.l.f. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development Israeli intelligence officials, however, believe the attack may have been the work of Fatah chiefs in the Gaza town of Rafah...
When Israeli missiles struck Syria last Sunday morning in what Israeli officials claimed was a retaliatory attack, they ended the 30-year truce between the two neighboring countries. Though the air strike against a disputed Syrian terrorist camp left only one person wounded, it also left many in the international community reevaluating when and how Israel should use its military force against other sovereign nations...
Following the act, Syria urged the U.N. to condemn the air strike, maintaining that it violated the U.N. charter as well as the 1974 disengagement agreement that followed the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Similarly, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder denounced the attack, as did various leaders from Arab nations. Here in the United States, however, the Bush administration supported Israel’s attack as a fair defense tactic. President Bush argued: “Israel’s got a right to defend herself; that Israel must not feel constrained in terms of defending the homeland.” Likewise...
Despite its protective motivations, the strike and its aftermath will do little to promote peace in the Middle East—and peace is the very thing Israel and the region so desperately need to establish...
...made a pilgrimage to Fatima to give thanks, and the assassin's bullet is now welded into the crown of the statue of the Virgin at Fatima. His devotion to the Cult of the Virgin may not necessarily move the elites of the post-modern West, but they strike a deep chord in the Church's primary growth zones in the developing world...