World briefing
Suicide bombs
prompt Israel
to seal borders
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Aaron Davis
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
JERUSALEM — Israeli officials
ordered Palestinian borders sealed
along the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Sunday following a wave of three
suicide bombings. And officials
warned that if terror attacks on Jews
do not let up, the Israeli military is
likely just days away from a retalia
tion strike so fierce that it would
shred renewed peace talks.
The ominous warning came as
two Palestinian teenagers were
killed and more than 20 were
wounded in ongoing fighting in the
Gaza Strip and as demonstrators
heckled Israeli lawmakers to aban
don the U.S.-led peace plan known
as the road map.
Early Sunday morning, the first
suicide blasts in Jerusalem in six
months killed seven Israelis and two
bombers and sent a city bus full of
wounded passengers careening in
reverse down a highway on-ramp.
The deadly attacks shoved the
fragile peace plan on a backward
slide, as well.
“The road map is unraveling, the
plan itself is becoming an obstacle to
peace. It’s causing attacks,” said
Jonathan Peled, a spokesman for
the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
“A lot depends on the coming
days. There may be a second
chance for this peace process. There
may not.”
Both hard-line Israelis and
Palestiniafi rfiil'itants oppose .the
three-stage road map, which calls
for the establishment of a Pales
tinian state by 2005. Israeli lead
ers oppose large parts of the plan
that would dismantle Jewish set
tlements in the West Bank and al
low millions of Palestinians to re
turn to their Israeli homes.
Palestinian militants believe Is
raelis must unconditionally end
their occupation of Palestinian
lands and can only be forced out
through armed conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon responded immediately to
the latest attack by canceling a
planned visit to Washington to dis
cuss road map concessions with
President George W. Bush.
Bush was expected to push
Sharon to engage the road map and
consider what the Israeli prime min
ister has termed “painful conces
sions” of abandoning settlements,
which would come near the end of
the three-year plan. Israel must halt
new settlements in the first phase of
the plan.
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Sharon has refused to begin im
plementing the plan until Palestini
ans halt terrorist attacks. Israeli of
ficials said Sunday’s attacks only
affirm Sharon’s argument that the
burden of peace rests first with
Palestinians cracking down on
armed militant groups.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil
Shaath said Sunday that the suicide
bombings and continued fighting in
Gaza were exactly the reasons why
a successful peace process is neces
sary.
“The peace process is the only
way out,” Shaath said. “We are seek
ing the road map because the at
tacks of today only confirm that
without peace there is no security,
no matter what measures the Is
raelis or we take.”
Palestinian militant groups have
launched suicide attacks after each
advance of the peace process.
Three times, the new Palestinian
Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas,
has taken steps required by the
United States and its allies under the
peace plan. Suicide attacks on Is
raelis have followed within hours.
Sunday morning’s attack came
less than six hours after the first
face-to-face meeting between Abbas
and Sharon to discuss the road map.
The two leaders met for nearly three
hours on Saturday night to develop
a “working plan,” officials said, to
curb the activities of Palestinian mil
itant groups.
Israeli TV reported Sunday night
that Sharon offered to turn over se
curity control of a section of Gaza
and some Palestinian cities to Abbas
and his new government, but the
Palestinian leader declined. Sources
said Abbas did not yet feel confident
that he could control the areas,
where militants like Hamas and Is
lamic Jihad are popular.
In the attack Sunday, a bomber
dressed as an observant Jew deto
nated explosives at about 5:45 a.m.
after boarding the No. 6 bus as it
made its way up a highway on-ramp,
according to police.
The front end of the accordion
style bus was obliterated by the
blast, and the bus then rolled
backward, crushed the front of an
arriving ambulance and jack
knifed partially off the road into a
grassy area.
After that bombing, a second
bomber was trapped between two
Israeli checkpoints and detonated
himself, a police spokesman said.
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