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agers. Classes were not in session at the
time of the explosion, which Israeli
police called a Palestinian terror attack.
Tuesday's murders sent fewer shock
waves through the Israeli public than a
brace of bombings in Jerusalem two
days earlier that miraculously failed to
end in carnage.
The first came after midnight early
Sunday morning, when a car bomb
exploded along a row of popular bars
that are the center of Jerusalem's
nightlife. Despite the large quantity of
explosives in the vehicle, the only
injuries were a few abrasions.
Early the following morning, terror
struck again. Barely 50 yards from the first
car bomb, another huge charge exploded,
hurling mortar rounds and bomblets from
a parked car for a radius of hundreds of
yards in the center of the capital.
Again, there were only light injuries.
Israelis seemed paralyzed by a sense
of impotence in the face of indiscrimi-
nate terror, able to infiltrate their lives
with such seeming ease.

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Familiar with the thinking of the lead-
ers of Israel and the Palestinian
Authority, diplomatic observers sought
to draw parallels between them,
despite the obvious differences.
Arafat, they say, believes he can wear
out Israel with incessant violence, top-
pling Sharon and eventually installing a
government that will offer him even more
than former Prime Minister Ehud Barak
did in rounds of peace talks last year.
Sharon, say these observers, believes that
staunch military resolve can overpower the
Palestinian Authority and force it — or its
successor — to accept an interim arrange-
ment far more stingy than the deal Barak
offered and Arafat spurned.
Inside the Israeli political communi-
ty, meanwhile, a third view appears to
be gaining momentum.
Some politicians, among them
Haim Ramon of Labor and Dan
Meridor of the Center Party, increas-
ingly speak of the need for Israel uni-
laterally to lay down its border line
along part, at least, of the West Bank.
The tactical goal is to halt or much
reduce terrorist infiltration.
The "price" is obvious, too: the dis-
mantling of settlements, and perhaps
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— JTA correspondent Naomi Segal in
Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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