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...Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the most important fact was that Israel's midnight air in Gaza killed an alleged terror mastermind - the resultant civilian casualties were a regrettable side issue. For the Palestinians, throughout the Arab world and even in the West the focus was on the thirteen bystanders killed (nine of them children) and 140 wounded in the strike. Those divergent responses suggest that despite U.S. and allied efforts to forge a new path toward peace, a new upsurge of violence may be inevitable. And that has the Bush administration more than a little concerned...
...Salah Shehade, the leader of the military wing of Hamas, was the target of an Israeli missile fired from an F-16 fighter into a Gaza City apartment building early Tuesday. Accusing Shehade of orchestrating dozens of terror attacks on Israeli civilians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the air strike one of the greatest successes of his tenure despite the regretful loss of innocent lives...
...themselves up in a non-Jewish Tel Aviv neighborhood, killing three bystanders and injuring more than 40 others. Earlier, eight people were killed and 20 wounded when an Israeli bus carrying settlers was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen inside the West Bank. The attacks showed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policy of occupying West Bank towns and imposing a curfew on the Palestinian population has not destroyed the militants' ability to strike. The gunmen, dressed in Israeli military uniform, set off a roadside bomb, which halted the bus, and then gunned down the passengers as they fled. Two groups...
...Before the latest attacks, Sharon and his ministers had discussed a scheme under which Israel would ease restrictions on Palestinians living in Gaza and Jericho (the most politically tranquil West Bank city, which has thus far avoided the reoccupation seen in other West Bank population centers), in exchange for the PA - under U.S. coaching - being allowed to resume its security functions and arresting militants...
...Sharon's Labor Party coalition partners would like to take that plan a step further, making Gaza and Jericho a pilot project for Palestinian statehood (in the same way as they served as the test-bed for the establishment of the PA under the Oslo Accords). But that would require the evacuation of Israeli settlements in Gaza, a step Sharon has refused to even consider. The latest attacks, however, appear to have frozen even the most meager version of the Gaza-and-Jericho first formula...