Jerusalem/JTA — The
weekend suicide bombings
that claimed the lives of 25
Israelis are but the latest
chapter in a long series of
terror attacks launched by
Palestinians against Israeli
targets.
The following timeline
lists terror attacks since the
latest Palestinian intifada
(uprising) began in late
September 2000:

Oct. 26: Israeli soldier killed
by bomber on bicycle in
Gaza Strip.

Nov. 2: Two people killed by
car bomb near Jerusalem's
Mahane Yehuda market.

The Look Of Terror

Jewish Settlers First

"Arafat didn't want a state next to Israel; he wanted a
state instead of Israel," Netanyahu said. And the
" constant rumbling that this is not our land' is more
insidious than anything else."
The Jews were there first, settling the land at great
cost at the turn of the last century, said Netanyahu,
whose great-grandfather was "one of the only
meshuggeners [crazy people] who came to Israel in
the 19th century from America to start a farm."
Early settlers faced disease and lack of food and
water. Once they made the land manageable, Arabs
came from the surrounding countries to work as
migrant farm laborers, he said. Between the two
world wars, the Arab population swelled five-fold.
"Jews were already there," he said.
Ken Lipschutz of Bloomfield Hills agreed with
Netanyahu's stance. "I thought he was phenomenal,
he's right on target and he's got a message that I
don't hear on CNN [Cable News Network].." he
said.
Emery Klein of Southfield said the lesson from the
former prime minister was all too clear. "We got a
lesson that -we don't have to be continuously apolo-
getic and appeasers, but we should stand up for our
rights and not be afraid what the world says," said
Klein. "The appeasers and the apologists belong to
the ghetto, not here." Li

Above: Israeli girls cry Sunday at the site
of a double suicide bombing the night
before that killed 10 young Israelis and
injured some 180 at the Ben Yehuda
pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.

Left: I.S. envoy Gen. Anthony
Zinni places a wreath at the site
of the _suicide attack.

Below: A car burns out of control
after a bomb inside it blew up on
Jerusalem's Ray Kook Street.

Nov. 20: Two Israelis killed,
nine wounded on school
bus in Gaza Strip.

NOV. 22: Two killed, 20
wounded by car bomb in
Hadera.

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do what is necessary to win, even at the cost of what
others may think.
Some thought that if the United States bombs
Afghanistan, 1 billion Muslims would revolt. But
when the U.S. understood the imperative for victory
and went ahead, just the opposite happened, he said.
Taliban forces began to defect.
Netanyahu said Israel is using the same three prin-
ciples in their fight against terrorism.
"Afghanistan or Arafaristan,' there is no differ-
ence," he said.
Netanyahu said former Prime Minister Ehud
Barak offered what Arafat wanted at the last meeting
in Camp David. "And what did Arafat do? He
chuckled," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu, on a national speaking tour, said noth-
ing justifies blowing up children, buses or the World
Trade Center. "If vou justify that, the next thing
blown up" will be an entire city."

Dec. 22: Suicide bombing
near restaurant in the Jordan
Valley injures three Israeli
soldiers.

Dec. 28: Pipe bomb wounds
14 on a commuter bus in
Tel Aviv.

Jan. 1,2001: Fifty wounded
by car bomb in Netanya.

Feb. 8: A car bomb in
Jerusalem wounds one.

Feb. 14: Eight Israelis killed,
21 injured by a bus driven
by a Palestinian.

March 1: One killed, nine
injured when a van explodes
in northern Israel.

March 4: Suicide bomber
kills three, injures 65.

March 26: Sniper kills 10-
month-old Jewish girl,
wounds father in Hebron.

March 27: Two separate
explosions in Jerusalem kill
one, injure 30.

only 23 people canceled their
plans for the current mission
after Saturday night, eight
because of illness, the normal
attrition rate.
Birthright's numbers will be
down. The program had originally
hoped to attract 10,000 partici-
pants from around the world this
winter, but program organizers
now only guarantee an excess of
5,000. They would not guess how

many Americans would participate.
Thinking ahead to summer
youth programs, which took a
huge hit last summer, the
United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism is current-
ly sponsoring a trip for parents
to scout out the situation for
their children.
It's the second year USY has
conducted this exercise and like-
ly it's the reason USY had a larg-

er contingency than any other
North American youth move-
ment last summer.
• "Now I can go back and tell
other parents that USY is 150
percent on top of security," said
parent Amy Schwartz of New
City, N.Y., speaking from . Israel.
"It's safe to be here, and life is
going on."

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March 28: Suicide bomber
kills two Israeli teen-agers
near Aviv suburb of Kfar
Saba.

April 14: Two bombs
explode in Kfar Saba. One
man injured .

April 22: Suicide bomber
kills a physician and injures
50 in Tel Aviv.

May 18: Suicide bomber
kills five at Netanya shop-
ping mall.

TIMELINE on page 19

12/7
2001

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