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The Israeli embassy in Paris was destroyed by an intense fire early on Thursday. Six firemen were injured but a night guard on duty got out safely. The cause of the fire is unknown. (New York Times/Reuters) "They want a Palestinian state in all of Palestine. What we see as self-evident, two states for two peoples, they reject. Israel is too strong at the moment to defeat, so they formally recognize it. But their game plan is to establish a Palestinian state while always leaving an opening for further 'legitimate' demands down the road." (New York Review of Books) Intense public reaction to media coverage of the Middle East conflict has led to boycotts of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, and has prompted harsh attacks on several broadcast news operations including CNN and National Public Radio. (New York Times)
News Resources - Israel and Mideast:
The explosion occurred near the city's central promenade alongside a group of elderly people playing chess. Eyewitnesses said the bomber had dyed blonde hair and a Western European appearance. The bomb was packed with nails to increase casualties. (Jerusalem Post/Israel Radio) An explosive device attached to a tanker truck blew up Thursday morning at the country's biggest fuel depot, just north of Tel Aviv. The tanker burst into flames, but the fire was rapidly doused by the depot's automatic fire extinguisher system. There were no injuries. (Ha'aretz) The Mossad, Israel's espionage agency, has recently increased its involvement in tracking down and monitoring outbreaks of anti-Semitism and violence against Jews in different parts of the world, in light of the attack on the synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, by an organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. (Ha'aretz) Mahmud Titi, district commander of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, was killed by IDF tank fire in the Balata refugee camp outside of Nablus. Titi was responsible for the murder of 11 Israeli civilians. (Jerusalem Post)
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The Palestinian security services were created in 1994 as a 30,000-strong police force to preserve law and order in the Palestinian-controlled territories. Today they include twelve different bodies (not including the Fatah-affiliated Tanzim and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades), each with separate independent branches in the West Bank and Gaza. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) An illustrated discussion on how television frames opinions in Israel and the Arab world (PBS) After the Israeli Army launched its retaliatory strike into the Palestinian Authority-ruled West Bank in early April, the international media was filled with reports that the Israelis had killed hundreds, even thousands, of Palestinian civilians. UPI traces the course of this "media myth" and the reasons why it was so widely believed. (UPI) The unprecedented outpouring of public discontent in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority over the past week affords the Bush Administration one of those rare, unexpected moments of opportunity. People have suddenly lost their fear of challenging the regime in public. Now's the time to promote democracy in Palestine. (OpinionJournal.com) Israel's deputy prime minister Natan Sharansky is pushing a reform plan for the Palestinians. "The biggest illusion was that only a strong dictator can bring peace," he says. Negotiation with dictators is morally wrong and politically dangerous: by ceding authority to strongmen, we reinforce their tyranny. (Financial Times) The Palestinians know their leadership is neither responding to their plight nor offering any pathway forward. They believe the Palestinian Authority is corrupt to the core, serving Arafat's interest and cronies in preserving power but benefiting no one else. (Washington Post) Excerpts from the U.S. State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism:
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