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Tell that to the residents of the Aida refugee camp. Last week they became the shooting range in a battle between Israeli soldiers manning the fortress around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and Palestinian gunmen from the Tanzim militia. The battle was fought with machine guns and helicopter-launched missiles. But it also showed that the Israeli army believes it is fighting with one hand tied behind its back...
...thick bulletproof glass on the guard tower at Rachel's Tomb. The Jewish holy site had been under fire from three sides for four hours. Bullets slammed into the glass, bludgeoning it with starfish cracks, like ice on a pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv...
...picked up the red phone and called Aviv again, asking permission to take a squad into Aida to go after the shooters. Aviv was willing to hit the Palestinians hard. He had ordered a grenade machine gun to fire on the Palestinian town of Beit Jala that night, after Tanzim fighters opened up on the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But this was too much. Aida is in Area A, under the complete control of Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Sending soldiers in there would be dynamite. "No, Yossi," he said to Mor, "there are orders on this. We'll have...
...Israeli settlers during the current violence, and although three different groups claimed responsibility, the blast follows a pattern of similar attacks in the area by the Islamic Jihad, an Islamist faction opposed to the peace process. But despite denials on the Palestinian side, Israel blamed the attack on the "Tanzim" militia of Yasser Arafat?s Fatah organization, and began blasting Fatah targets from helicopter gunships Monday night...
...escalation that Israel has been warning of, in its repeated threat that it will 'know what to do' if violence persists. Throughout the current intifada, the Israelis have been saying they know the individuals behind this. The Israelis blame Fatah's Tanzim militia for most of the violence. Hussein Abayat, the guy who was killed, was fairly powerful in his neighborhood, and the Israelis believe he was behind the attacks on the Gilo neighborhood, which had so frightened Israeli public opinion...