A Gallup poll commissioned by the Ma\'ariv newspaper last week shows that less than one-fifth of the populace feels that \"such people as Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin and Uri Savir who participated in the formation of the Oslo Agreements\" should be made to stand trial. However, analyst Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA notes \"the groundbreaking significance of the very fact that this question was included in a poll by the mainstream media.\" ...
Journalist David Bedein, of Israel Resource News Agency, reports that of the 179 victims of Palestinian terrorism in the past year, about 1 in 3 of them have been females. In comparison to the close to 60 Israeli females who have been murdered, only 19 of the Arabs who were killed were females - \"and none of them were killed by drive-by shootings [or] suicide bombers.\" Bedein notes that often, \"news reports downplay the reportage of female murders by writing that a \'settler\' has been killed. Arab suicide bombers have blown themselves up while mingling among young Israeli girls in discos, coffee shops and pizza parlors. Arab drive-by shooters who have shot Israeli women in vehicles in broad daylight seem to have known exactly whom they were aiming for. Perhaps some women\'s organizations should pay attention to this.\" ...
Ma’ariv editorialized today that “The Israeli Prime Minister erred when he thought that the world would link Arafat and Bin-Laden together and come to Israel’s support.” HaTzofeh says that Bush\'s \"assumption is that Israel is capable of taking every possible slap in the face, an assumption which, in light of the Sharon government’s conduct, is hard to refute.” HaTzofeh editors call on the government to \"make it clear that Israel will retaliate strongly if attacked... The Israeli position must be unequivocally clear: If the White House turns Israel into a concubine, it must take into account that Israel will not stand by if its citizens are murdered just so that Bush can have Arafat’s and the Assad family’s terrorist regimes in his pocket...\"
Journalist David Bedein, of Israel Resource News Agency, reports that of the 179 victims of Palestinian terrorism in the past year, about 1 in 3 of them have been females. In comparison to the close to 60 Israeli females who have been murdered, only 19 of the Arabs who were killed were females - \"and none of them were killed by drive-by shootings [or] suicide bombers.\" Bedein notes that often, \"news reports downplay the reportage of female murders by writing that a \'settler\' has been killed. Arab suicide bombers have blown themselves up while mingling among young Israeli girls in discos, coffee shops and pizza parlors. Arab drive-by shooters who have shot Israeli women in vehicles in broad daylight seem to have known exactly whom they were aiming for. Perhaps some women\'s organizations should pay attention to this.\" ...
Ma’ariv editorialized today that “The Israeli Prime Minister erred when he thought that the world would link Arafat and Bin-Laden together and come to Israel’s support.” HaTzofeh says that Bush\'s \"assumption is that Israel is capable of taking every possible slap in the face, an assumption which, in light of the Sharon government’s conduct, is hard to refute.” HaTzofeh editors call on the government to \"make it clear that Israel will retaliate strongly if attacked... The Israeli position must be unequivocally clear: If the White House turns Israel into a concubine, it must take into account that Israel will not stand by if its citizens are murdered just so that Bush can have Arafat’s and the Assad family’s terrorist regimes in his pocket...\"