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...response to last Thursday's attack on a Bat Mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera, where a Palestinian gunman shot dead six revelers. The terrorists, in both instances, were sent not by Hamas, but by the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - an armed group linked with Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, which claimed to be avenging last week's assassination of one of its local leaders. And, once the Jerusalem shooter's address and affiliations are firmly established, expect to see further Israeli action - and further terror attacks...
...responded to Tuesday's attack by demanding that Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat do more to rein in the militants. "He needs to dismantle the organizations that do these things," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. Referring to recent statements by militant groups suspending their undertakings not to launch attacks inside Israel in response to Arafat's December 16 cease-fire call, Boucher added: "It's not a matter of whether they decide they will or they won't carry out attacks, it's making sure that they...
Ariel Sharon stood on the dock at Israel's Red Sea port Eilat. Arrayed around him were row upon row of rifles, rockets, missiles and ammunition. Israeli commandos had snatched the weapons from a boat Israel claims was smuggling the arms to the Palestinian Authority. Sharon accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of wanting to blow up the faint, remaining hopes of peace with this lethal, 50-ton haul. But it was not for Arafat, whom Sharon consistently calls a terrorist, that the Israeli Prime Minister had his bitterest words. Those he reserved for Iran, which Israel maintains was the supplier...
...continued terrorist attacks on Israelis [WORLD, Dec. 24]: When will the world realize that Yasser Arafat lacks the will, the courage and the power to effect a meaningful peace with Israel? To label Israelis terrorists because they retaliate in kind for the murderous acts of militant Palestinians is the height of irrational thinking. When Arafat walked away from the 2000 Camp David peace process, it was positive proof that he was a tool of the radicals who control him. ALBERT E. DENNY Baltimore...
...shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly in the northern sector. A harsh military response by Israel in the territories followed by renewed Palestinian attempts to conduct suicide bombings inside (Israel)." Harel questions the timing of Karmi's assassination, given the relative lull in violence that had followed Yasser Arafat's mid-December cease-fire call...