(Newsday) Robert Steward - The Gaza bombing was an escalation that puts the lie to the excuse that somehow suicide bombers who kill women and children are merely responding to Israeli "occupation." The bomb killed U.S. citizens who were in Gaza as part of an effort to forge a peace process on behalf of Palestinians. The casualties were men with diplomatic passports - not Israeli troops. And more important, the terrorists struck against a group of observers who were open to the sovereignty and land borders demands of the Palestinians. The aim of the terrorists is clear: There can be no two-state solution - Israel must be destroyed.
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