Word: zeit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suicide bomb at a gas station just inside Israel that set in motion Phase 1 of Sharon's plan. A group of young Israelis gathered there each morning to wait for the bus. A young Palestinian, a student at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, approached the kids with his leather jacket zipped up, despite the heat of the morning. Beneath the jacket was a girdle of explosives. When he detonated, he took two Israeli youngsters with him. It was the third explosion--and two other bombs were defused--within Israel's borders in 24 hours. There had been so many...
...fact, on a daily basis, the average Palestinian is saturated with messages of anger and hate against Israelis by the PA-controlled media. It's no wonder a recent Bir Zeit University poll found that 74 percent of Palestinians feel that even if East Jerusalem were to come under Palestinian control, Israel has no right to be in West Jerusalem. Predictably, although Israel continues to have a formidable peace movement with the goal of reaching out to their Arab brethren, no comparable movement exists among Palestinians...
...Israelis have dug trenches across roads around Jericho and Bir Zeit, cutting those places off in the belief that it stops people from moving bombs and weapons around. But those trenches obviously also stop an ambulance from reaching those areas now, too. There's an awareness, though, on the Israeli side that Arafat might want them to do something really bad that would bring international condemnation, and possibly even international intervention in the West Bank and Gaza. So it's very unlikely that they'll go storming into Palestinian towns. But the situation remains very volatile and very unpredictable...