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| Boomers kill four Israelis |
| 2002-02-18 |
An Israeli woman and two soldiers were killed in a Palestinian attack on a convoy heading across the Gaza Strip to the Jewish settlement of Gadid, settler sources said. The assailant opened automatic gunfire on his victims before killing himself by triggering an explosive device he was carrying, television said, adding another Israeli was injured the attack. The previous deaths in the increasingly vicious 16-month-old Palestinian intifada, or uprising, came on the outskirts of Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital. Two Israeli police working on an anonymous tip-off stopped a suspect vehicle on the road linking Jerusalem to the West Bank town of Jericho. As the police questioned the Palestinian driver and searched the vehicle, the man detonated a car bomb, killing himself and one officer. Israel's getting back into a corner, with a limited range of choices. They can tough it out until all the boomers are dead and/or Arafat keels over from old age; they can wall them off and make Israel an Arab-free territory; or they can throw the PA out of the West Bank and Gaza. They really can't even surrender; they tried that with the Camp David agreements and Arafat wanted to keep the war going. They can't really wall them off, because Israel has its own Arab population, most of whom are perfectly good citizens. That pretty much leaves toughing it out or cleaning them out. Of the two, the former's probably the one they'll pick, as the latter's the more politically messy. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |