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More haste, less speed Shlomo Gazit November, 27 2001 (November 27) - The news on the radio last Thursday morning began, justifiably, with the story of the five Palestinian children, all members of the same family, who were killed in an explosion in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. The announcement explained that "the tragedy occurred when the group of children played with an unexploded shell from an IDF tank." After a very short time we heard the Palestinian version of the incident: "IDF forces planted a booby-trap that was planned to hit Palestinians who regularly fire mortar shells ...

Israel and the Palestinians No quiet, no peace Jul 6th 2001 | JERUSALEM From The Economist print edition The ceasefire that isn’t COLIN POWELL’S success in holding Israel and the Palestinians to a ceasefire lasted about as long as the secretary of state’s return flight to Washington on June 30th. The two sides had apparently agreed to seven days of “quiet” to precede the cooling-off period prescribed in the ceasefire brokered by George Tenet, the CIA chief. During the cooling-off, Israel would ease its military siege of the occupied territories and the Palestinian Authority would resume security co-operation. But first ...