Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that the diplomatic process would continue despite last night's murder. It apparently wasn't a big enough attack; this past Friday, Shalom told a delegation of AIPAC members in Tel Aviv that an "attack in Tel Aviv with 20 dead will be the end of the diplomatic process."
Welfare Minister Zevulun Orlev, responding to Minister Shalom's remarks, said, "I have a feeling that some government ministers are beginning to arrange the facts in accordance with their conceptions."
Tourism Minister Benny Elon (National Union) called upon the government today to call off the Road Map process in light of last night's murder.
Arutz-7's Haggai Segal noted that the long deliberations over whether the explosion was gas-related or a terrorist attack "didn't seem to matter anyway - for the Road Map wagon continues to gallop along, despite the attack, despite the massive onslaught on the outpost in Gaza, and despite the bombs and shootings in the Shomron. The Sharon Government, which announces at every opportunity that it has learned the lessons of Oslo, continues to manage the peace process according to the classic Oslo outline, and continues to make concessions to the PA as if there were no terrorism."