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>From http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=307754
> Palestinian witnesses said that a convoy of Jewish settlers, some
> armed with M-16 assault rifles, descended on the Arab town of
> Howara
>>>"Civilians" with M-16s ... hmmm<<<
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22 June 2002 12:13 BDST
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Israeli settlers rampage after blood- soaked week
By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem
22 June 2002 Internal links Shoppers killed as Israeli tank opens fire in market
Israeli settlers rampage after blood-soaked week Howard Jacobson: Where there's
no hope, must there be no life?
Armed Israeli settlers appeared to have taken the law into their own hands
yesterday by raiding a West Bank town as divisions emerged within the Israeli
government over how to respond to the latest wave of Palestinian attacks.
Palestinian witnesses said that a convoy of Jewish settlers, some armed with M-16
assault rifles, descended on the Arab town of Howara and killed a 22-year-old Arab
man and set fire to cars. Israeli police said they were checking the reports.
The attack took place while the settlement of Itamar � built on occupied territory just
south of Nablus � was burying the victims of Thursday evening's attack in which a
Palestinian gunman killed five people, including a mother and three of her eight
children.
The resumption of sectarian attacks � which were an almost daily feature of the
early days of the 21-month intifada � comes as a debate rages within the Israeli
government over how to respond to Palestinian assaults, in which 33 Israelis were
killed within three days this week � the majority in two suicide bombings in
Jerusalem.
There is fury in Israel that Palestinian suicide bombers are again randomly blowing
up civilians. There is also deep disappointment that these attacks have resumed
less than two months after the Israeli army sent thousands of tanks and troops into
the West Bank in its largest offensive against the Palestinians since 1967.
Earlier this week, Ariel Sharon's government said that it intended to reoccupy the
pockets of Palestinian-run land on the West Bank � the rest is already Israeli-
controlled � and remain "as long as terror continued". It described this plan as an
important change of policy, although its forces have already been conducting
almost daily raids into Palestinian- administered towns, and for months encircled
Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. The policy was coupled with a partial
call-up of reservists.
But divisions have emerged over the reoccupation plan within Mr Sharon's coalition
government. Benjamin Ben- Eliezer, the Defence Minister, and the Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres � both from Labour � denied that they have agreed to the new policy.
Yesterday, in response to the Itamar killings, Israeli forces sent 50 tanks into
Nablus, and dug in further in Jenin, but it was unclear how long they planned to
stay.
A meeting of Israel's security cabinet yesterday appeared slightly to soften its
position, saying only that the army should remain in Palestinian areas as long as
necessary. Concerns abound within Israel that total reoccupation of the West Bank
would lead to more casualties in the army. The Palestinians have portrayed the
reoccupation policy as part of a long-held plan by Mr Sharon to seize control of all
of the West Bank, crushing any chance of a Palestinian state.
Underlying this debate is a general uncertainty in Israel over its next move.
Assassinations, blockades, curfews, mass arrests, demolitions, and the bombing of
the Palestinian infrastructure have failed to stop the attacks. Figures issued by the
Israeli Defence Forces yesterday said that in the two months since the end of the
offensive, called Operation Defensive Shield, 84 Israelis have been killed, and 276
injured.
The international community is pressing Mr Sharon to couple his many conditions
for talks � led by a demand for a complete end to Palestinian violence and major
reforms in Palestinian society � with political moves, arguing that no progress will
be possible unless the Palestinians have some form of hope. But every new murder
of a civilian hardens the views of the extremists. Yesterday the latter made their
views clear in a full page advertisement inThe Jerusalem Post, a sister paper of The
Daily Telegraph that has written extensively on the problem of incitement in the
Palestinian media. The unsigned advertisement called on the army to respond to
suicide bombings with artillery and air assaults on the killer's home area � attacks
which the advert admitted would "inevitably kill and injure hundreds, even
thousands, of Arabs".
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