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...Gaza may once have seemed a natural investment in Israel's security, but today that occupation is fast becoming the Jewish state's security nightmare. The recent images tell the story: Palestinian guerrillas infiltrating a military outpost in Gaza and killing three soldiers. Israel responding with air power and tank artillery, then assassinating a key radical Palestinian leader a day later. Intense Palestinian small arms and mortar fire across a wide front, and then Israel sending in armored columns to quell that fire...
...Rumsfeld hopes to build the fighting forces of tomorrow, but the brass want more of the weapons of today. After years of lean budgets, they want hardware now. The Pentagon finalized a contract last week for 10 F-22 fighters. And the Army wants to update the M-1 tank. But Bush's budget doesn't provide much new money...
...activities on all fronts. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened that the next time a Palestinian gunman fires a shot from the town of Beit Jala across the valley to Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem built on occupied land, Israel will invade the Palestinian town. Last week Israel moved tanks to the edge of Beit Jala as part of what Israeli military officials call a "rolling operation." As in the Jenin incursion, the aim is to mount different types of actions with constantly varying amounts of force all over the Palestinian territories. Until now, Israel's attacks have come mostly...
...course, if the tax cuts don?t help, and the economy is still in the tank in November 2002, the GOP?s snug-fitting belt is likely to quickly settle around their necks...
...turning point, in fact, came not in August but in January of1991, when Soviet tanks moved into Vilnius in a bloody but unsuccessful effort to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. There I saw soldiers take over the country's main TV tower, waving to us as they raced to the building. I watched a tank effortlessly flatten a heavy truck that had been pulled across the road to block its path, and stared at the dead bodies of young people who a few hours earlier had been dancing in an improvised disco at the foot of the TV tower. After...