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- 'Baby Bomber' in family album leads to propaganda war - Describing how the photograph will become as emblematic of the conflict as the video footage of the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy at the start of the Intifada, but that the true lesson to be learned is how Israel's policies are shifting power into the hands of Palestinian extremists.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=310168
- 'I would have preferred a bullet in the leg' - Describing the potentially devastating effects of shock and post-traumatic stress disorder on witnesses to terrorist attacks, even when they don't suffer physical injury.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=193815
- 10 settlers die in bus - Describing an attack on an Israeli bus by Palestinian militants, and Ariel Sharon's effort to hold Arafat responsible for the conduct of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which he does not control.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,617905,00.html
- A fading dream turns into a nightmare - Describing the death of baby, born after his mother was shot in an ambush by Palestinian militants, as emblematic of the folly of Israel's illegal settlement enterprise and the tenacity of the settlers.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,757060,00.html
- A near-death experience - Describing meetings between Israel's defense minister and Palestinians in Israeli prisons who changed their minds after agreeing to perform suicide bombings, and the lessons that can be learned from what they say.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=178487
- A trip in the shadow of terror - Describing differences in opinion in Israel's cabinet about an appropriate response to rising terrorism, controversy over the attack on Arafat's headquarters, and a child allowance cut meant to discriminate against Arab Israeli families.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=173887
- Al-Ahram Weekly: On terrorism, again - Azmi Bishara, Palestinian Knesset MP, draws parallels from US support of dictatorship in Latin America and A-bombing of Japan to question US "war on terror" motives in the Middle East.
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/569/op10.htm
- American Victims of Arab-Palestinian Violence - Condeming Arafat, the Palestinian Authority, and the United States Government as anti-Semitic and supporting terrorism.
avpv.tripod.com
- Arab Media Paint U.S. Action as a Kind of Terrorism - Neither bin-Laden nor the USAF seen as heroes, but images of injured civilians predominate. Criticizing the United States as overlooking Israeli terrorism.
www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/politics/11ARAB.html?pagewanted=print
- Arafat pledges to root out terrorists - Describing Arafat's pledge to root out terrorists planning attacks on Israeli citizens, qualified by his report that Israel's military incursions in the West Bank had left his devastated security services unable to carry out his orders.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,711972,00.html
- Arrests of 10 men reveal Israelis have armed enemy for years - Describing recent arrests which suggest that residents of Israel's settlements in the occupied territories have been selling weapons to the Palestinians for years, even though they know the arms could be used against their neighbors.
www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asecmidguns28072802jul28.story
- Bitter Circus Erupts as Israel Indicts a Top Fatah Figure - Describing court proceedings where the defendant, a prominent Palestinian who has long advocated peace, announced his intention to prove Israel guilty of crimes, and the prosecutor indicated an intention to grandstand about the evils of the Palestinian authority, with truth an apparent afterthought. [Free registration required]
www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/international/middleeast/15MIDE.html
- Bomb delivered Hamas message: no peace while Israel exists - Describing how Hamas works against the Palestinian Authority and the peace process, and how Ariel Sharon's promise of security through strong military action against the Palestinians has resulted only in increased violence.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,712209,00.html
- Building the terror infrastructure - Describing the relationship between the occupation and Palestinian terrorism, through twenty stories of poverty, suffering, and death, and acts of violence, vandalism and terrorism by Israeli settlers.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=153413
- Bus attack in Israel kills seven - Describing an attack on West Bank settlers by Palestinian militants, as diplomats from the United States, Russia, the European Union and United Nations meet to consider possible approaches to the continuing conflict and occupation.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=315714
- Bush Must See Past the Acts of Terror to the Root Causes - A former high CIA official calls the Bush administration hostage to a one-sided agenda, and warns that Washington and Israel are walking right down the path to the abyss.
www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=596&month=1&year=2002&function=text
- Changing World Meets Unchanged Worldview - Columnist Dan Carpenter of the Indianapolis Star says America got a taste of her own medicine on Sept. 11 - what people on the West Bank endure every day - but has learned nothing from it.
www.commondreams.org/views02/0107-06.htm
- Deadly Attack - Hamas has claimed responsibility for 3 bombs exploding in a crowded mall in West Jerusalem, killing at least 7 and injuring 192. Transcript, audio, and related news articles.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec97/bomb_9-4.html
- Defiant Hamas leaders vow to continue terror against Israel - Hamas leaders in Gaza express that neither fear of assassination or military invasion will stop their terrorist attacks.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=282445
- Dr Arad Uzi - Arguing that Israel should use military 'deterrence' to fight terror.
www.shmana.com/art/druziarad_algeria.html
- Education may be key to extremist actions - Observing that Arab and Israeli extremists killed while engaged in militant or terrorist activity tend to have higher levels of educational achievement than their peers, and support for militant activity does not diminish with education or improved financial status.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,764837,00.html
- Enough is Enough - Anti-Islamic site, offering articles, opinions, and resources relating to Palestinian attacks on Israelis.
www.geocities.com/enough_net
- Four Israeli Settlers Killed, U.N. Team Poised - Describing an attack by Palestinian gunmen on an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, as the arrival of a U.N. fact-finding mission is delayed at Israel's request.
www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/nation/3147478.htm
- Government of Israel - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Site currently devoted primarily to Palestinian terrorism and Israeli response.
www.israel.org/mfa/home.asp
- Ha'aretz - Assassination as a Boomerang - Editorializes that Israeli assassinations increase the cycle of violence; the bat-mitzvah gunman who killed ten Israelis acted out of revenge, when his close personal friend was assassinated.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=119655&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
- Hamas history tied to Israel - Describing Israel's historic support provision of direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas, as part of a plan to weaken the Palestinian authority, to identify radical militants, and in some circles to obstruct peace, and how that strategy backfired.
www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r
- Hamas victim 'was searching for her roots' - Profiling an American student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, who was killed by a Hamas bomb.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=321264
- Israel Defense Forces - Terror casualties during Ebb and Flow - Daily tabulation of Israeli military and civilian casualties, by type of attack.
www.idf.il/english/news/nifg.stm
- Israel shaken by day of violence - Describing a series of terrorist attacks on Israeli civilian targets as making remote any prospect of peace talks, and making nonsense of Israel's military incursions in the occupied territories and Nablus.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,769401,00.html
- Israel/Palestinian Authority: Protect Civilians, Allow Independent Reporting - A call from Human Rights Watch for all parties to respect international humanitarian law, and to end action against civilians.
hrw.org/press/2002/04/isr-pa040302.htm
- Israeli attack on Hamas leader scuttled Arab plan to cut off radical group - Describing how U.S. State Department efforts, which had resulted in commitments by Saudi Arabia to cut off funding to Hamas, and from Egypt to pressure it to end suicide bombings, were undermined by Israel's missile attack on a Palestinian neighborhood.
www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/3749347.htm
- Israelis probed for 'targeting Arabs' - Describing Israel's efforts to investigate Jewish extremists suspected of plotting and committing terrorist acts against Palestinians.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1982000/1982851.stm
- Jewish gang suspected of plotting to bomb Arab school - Describing the discovery of a large bomb outside of a Palestinian girls school, and the arrest of four Israelis, now considered suspects in a two-year string of terrorist attacks, including several shooting deaths.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=162426
- Jewish vigilantes unrepentant - Describing the lack of remorse by a Kach terrorist cell in Israel's Hebron settlement for its attack on Palestinian civilians which killed, among others, a three-month-old baby.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,525708,00.html
- Joint Statement Given in Jerusalem - Joint statement given by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Jurists, denouncing all attacks against civilians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
hrw.org/press/2002/04/isrstmnt040702.htm
- Killers make funeral of wedding - Describing how Israeli extremists committed a terrorist attack on a car full of Palestinian civilians near Hebron, killing a three month old baby, the youngest victim of the conflict to date.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,525230,00.html
- Lebanon Accuses Israel of Killing Warlord Hobeika - Reuters - Lebanese and Belgian officials implicate Israel in car bombing of militia leader Elie Hobeika, two days after he met with Belgian MP's about the Sharon Sabra - Shatilla war crime trial.
www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=543351
- Letter for an American editor - Presenting a letter from Fatah and Tanzim leaders denouncing suicide bombing, which was to be sent to American newspapers the day after Sharon's ill-timed missile attack on a Palestinian civilian neighborhood.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=192168
- Minister's death stuns Israel - Describing the assassination of Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, an extremist who advocated ethnic cleansing, and the claim by the PFLP that the murder was in revenge for Israel's assassination of faction leader Abu Ali Mustafa.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,575870,00.html
- Of Biblical proportions - Observing the deplorable effects of terrorism in Israel while observing that the U.S. better defends its border with Mexico than Israel defends its border with the occupied West Bank, and asking if Ariel Sharon is wantonly sacrificing the lives of his own people in the name of messianic expansionism.
www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/382042p-3045832c.html
- Patterns of Jewish terrorists - Asserging that Israeli terrorists fall into three general categories: those who attack Palestinians suspected of acting against Jews, those who are seeking to hasten the Redemption, and vigilantes ostensibly seeking to avenge or deter terrorism through attacks on innocent civilians.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=162430
- Politics In the Name of the Prophet , by Eric Rouleau (globalpolicy/lemonde) - Discusses and distinguishes issues of Islam, political Islam, and the causes and remedies of terrorism.
www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/terrorism/1116mdiplo.htm
- Seriously Wounded - The stories Israelis who have been injured as a result of terrorism or violence in Israel and the Occupied territories, presented as a reminder that survivors suffer wounds that may take a lifetime to heal.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=140119
- State Dep.: 'no clear evidence' Arafat directed terror - The U.S. State Department reports that there is no clear evidence that senior Palestinian Authority officials planned or approved of terrorism during the Al Aqsa Intifada, although the P.A. did little to rein in elements of the organization involved in violence,
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=165091
- State Dept. report: Weakening of PA increased attacks on Israel - Describing the conclusions of the U.S. State Department, that Israel's military offensives in the occupied territories damaged Arafat's ability to reign in terror, and contributed to an increase in terror attacks against Israel.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=166604
- State Terrorism in Israel? - Comparing Palestinian terrorism with Israel's assassinations and attacks in the occupied territories.
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0205/article/020512a.html
- Teenagers shot by Israelis, then run over with a tank - Describing the reactions of the families of four young teenagers who to attack an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, apparently out of desire for revenge for Israel's military attacks on Palestinian cities.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=288987
- Terrorism Vs. Occupation - Analyzing the relationship between Israel's occupation, construction of settlements on Palestinian land, and escalating collective punishments against all Palestinians, and terrorism.
www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h021502.html
- Thank you, BBC! (Sharon should be grateful, too) - Describing Sharon's long history of provoking Palestinian terrorist attacks in order to justify his expansive miitary operations and his express end-goal of forcing Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
www.mediamonitors.net/uri28.html
- The Attack on Al Aqsa Mosque in 1981 - Describing how American Israeli soldier opened fire within the holy mosque, killing 9 worshippers and injuring approximately 100.
www.jerusalemites.org/crime_islam_5.html
- The Balance of Terror: War By Other Means in the Contemporary Middle East - Scholarly analysis of the strategic use of terror by Israel, Iraq and other Middle East protagonists. Discusses the definition, causes, utility and categories of terrorism, with reference to cases such as the 1996 Israeli-Hizbollah clash in Lebanon.
www.ipsjps.org/jps/109/gambill.html
- The Different Types of Israeli and Zionist Terrorism - Discusses forms of terror historically employed by colonists, paramilitaries, and the Israeli state, especially bombing of civilians and assassinations of key figures.
www.angelfire.com/ia/palestinefoever/differnttypesofzionsts.html
- The Islamic War - Accusing all Muslims of an ungodly, demonic spirit and of hating the West.
www.literatus.net/essay/IslamicWar.html
- The strange affair of Karine A - Analyzing the various claims and unanswered questions surrounding a shipment of Iranian arms that Israel claims was meant for Palestinian militants.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,636888,00.html
- The Times: He is a terrorist, we just frighten people - The author points out that labels are subjective and that people get violent when pushed in a corner, and has this to say on harboring terrorists: "I would not have turned in an ANC terrorist to the South African police."
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001363841,00.html
- The Truth About Terrorism Is Contained in Encyclopedia Entries - Author Isaac Melton. American is surprised by Britannica entries on the acts of terror committed by Israeli prime ministers.
www.mediamonitors.net/isaacmelton1.html
- Three dead after Jerusalem bus attack - Describing a shooting attack on an Israeli bus by a Palestinian gunman, resulting in three deaths and thirty-five injuries.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,587846,00.html
- Two Israeli youths held for plan to attack Arabs - Describing the arrest of two Jewish extremists who planned to attack Palestinian civilians, as well as a background of bomb and shooting terrorist attacks made by Israeli settlers against Palestinian schoolchildren and families in cars.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=157957
- Two Snippets of Israeli History - Brief commentary on the assassination of Count Bernadotte by the Stern Gang, organized by Yitzhak Shamir, and the massacre at Deir Yassin, led by Menachem Begin, and the influence of those incidents on subsequent events.
www.spectacle.org/495/deir.html
- U.S. should oppose terrorism by Israelis - Arguing that state terrorism against innocent people hurts the most.
www.mediamonitors.net/bobraysanders1.html
- University suicide bomb kills six - Describing a suicide bombing in the cafeteria of Hebrew University in East Jerusalem, the second such bombing in two days.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=320168
- Warlike talk - Analyzing the effect of terrorism on Israelis, incorporating the perspectives of high school students, political leaders, and Israel's history.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=164607
- Washington Reports on Middle East Affairs - PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's first appearance at the United Nations. Discusses the long road to recognition for Palestine.
www.washington-report.org/backissues/1194/9411070.htm
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