Posted on 03/10/2002 4:12:33 AM PST by kattracks
JERUSALEM, March 10 (AFP) - Israel's newspapers Sunday described the previous night's bloody suicide bomb attack, in "one of the most heavily secured areas" in the country, as a turning point in the conflict with the Palestinians.Eleven Israelis died in the blast in a cafe near the office and official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"Last night ... something of substance happened," said an editorial of the daily Yedioth Aharonot.
The bodies, blood and destruction, were "the same ones that have been with us on a nearly daily basis". The difference was the location, the paper said.
"Symbolically, the strike on the prime minister's residence compound last night is no less important than the shells that the IDF (Israeli army) has sent flying into (Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat's courtyard in Ramallah" in the West Bank."
"An unbearably difficult symmetry has been created here. Both sides have found a way to strike at each other's heart," the paper added in the editorial written before Israeli forces destroyed Arafat's compound in Gaza City.
The daily Ma'ariv said: "The horror, which has become our daily bread recently, approaches new heights."
"The talks of ceasefires and diplomatic initiatives, of soon-to-arrive envoys, seems pathetic in view of the reality developing on the ground."
Sharon now faced pressures "which could eventually tear him and his coalition to pieces", the paper said.
It added that "now the Rubicon has truly been crossed ... there are only radical solutions ... from an all-out war, through a ceasefire initiated by two exhausted sides, and up to the possibility that the international community will take itself and matters in hand."
The right-leaning English-language Jerusalem Post daily, for its part, said that "Arafat has no intention of halting the violence any time soon."
In a swipe at the international community, the paper said: "While sending envoys and hurling criticism at Israel may help appease the Arab states, it will do little to convince Arafat that violence is not the answer."
I guess "Yedioth Aharonot" has no political stance.
It is somewhere left of Ha'aretz.
If anything JP is centrist. They don't even bother quoting from the religious papers, and the rest range from outright communist to 'I'd rather have Arab friends than a Jew with a skullcap' socialists.
Evidently the Israelis need better aim. Not close enough to the terrorists' 'heart'.
Ouch!
One bolshevik media organ, AFP, labeling another bolshevik media organ, The Jerusalem Post, right-leaning.
It was Barak's weakness which caused this bloodbath. His willingness to give away the farm and Clinton's support of that emboldened the Palestinians. If a little violence and the threat thereof could get them 70% of what they wanted, why not use a LOT of violence while simultaneously playing the victim to get all of what they wanted? Why compramise? Clinton and Barak encouraged them to think that if they just kept it up they could have it all. Clinton and Barak legitamized terrorism as an insterment of policy.
That's bull. How could Israel ring these four separate regions? What the heck are you trying to say? If there were 4 separate regions it was to keep the Pallies from arming themselves the way they have done. Israel is perfectly right not to want a Palestinian crack house nation on it's borders. Way too many of the Pallies are vicious psycho killers. Way too many
My guess is these four separate regions would pass with time as the Pallies showed they wished to live in peace with Jews. Oslo was a step by step agreement where the more peaceful intentions the Palestinians showed, the more they would get.
Huh???????
Arabic news outlets trumpeted Arafat's election as president of the Palestinian Authority with more than 80 percent of the vote. Below, a Jerusalem newsstand displays a newspaper bearing the headline, "Yasser Arafat, the first elected Palestinian president."
http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/flashpointisrael/timeline/1996a.html
Spot on! They can escalate in frequency, but until they get other weaponry they can't escalate in form. Israel's difficulty would seem to be in making responses that don't bring the whole Arab world down on them. (OTOH there was '48, '67, '73...)
No more Muslims working inside those gates..and no one entering without an xray screen..
When the Jewish people settled that territory it was a wasteland . It is time to deny the Muslims any part of the prosperity of Israel..no jobs ,no housing.Nothing at all!
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