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ichael Lasry didn't want
to go to school Tuesday
morning, but his moth-
er, Devorah, pushed
him out the door at 7:45 a.m., remind-
ing the ninth grader that there were
only a few weeks left in the school year.
Twenty minutes later, Devorah heard
there had been an explosion on a
Jerusalem bus crowded with school chil-
dren near the ORT boys high school
that Michael attends on the southern
end of the city, at the Patt Junction.
The bus was carrying schoolchildren
and commuters from Gilo, the Lasrys'
neighborhood on the outskirts of the
city, toward downtown Jerusalem.
"I knew Michael was on that bus,"
said Devorah Lasry, who appeared calm
and composed while standing by her.
son's bedside in an emergency room in
one of the Hadassah hospitals. "But it
took hours until I finally got through
to him in the ambulance, and he kept
on saying, 'I'm OK, Mom, I'm OK.' "
Michael Lasry's wounds are consid-
ered "light" by the standards of Israeli
terror victims: Bomb shrapnel entered
his lungs and sprayed his face. •
At least 19 people were killed by the
powerful explosives a Palestinian suicide
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Otherwise, they say, they could be left
with a truncated mini-state.
Sharon is adamantly opposed to any
such timetable, however. In his early
June meeting with President Bush,
Sharon argued that establishing a bind-
ing time frame for Palestinian statehood
would remove any incentive for reform
— because, at the end of the allotted
time, the Palestinians could count on
getting their state, whether or not they
had reformed their institutions.
Instead, Sharon recommends estab-
lishing performance benchmarks the
Palestinians would have to meet before
proceeding on each stage toward state-
hood.
The early signs are that the Bush
administration intends to play hardball
with both sides. In a mid-June interview
bomber detonated on the commuter bus.
More than 50 people were taken to
Jerusalem hospitals, where several were
listed in serious condition and the rest
were lightly or moderately wounded.
By late morning, one of the critical-
ly wounded victims died on the oper-
ating table, sending her family and
friends into a paroxysm of grief out-
side the emergency room.
Jerusalem had been on high alert for
terrorist attacks since Monday, amid a
general alert throughout the country
for several suicide bombers believed to
have infiltrated from the West Bank
over the weekend.
Police helicopters had hovered over
the city Monday night, while check-
points were set up at various junctions
and streets to check cars and drivers
throughout the city.
Everyone has been feeling "slightly
scared and suspicious," an Israel Radio
commentator said, "just waiting for
the next bomb to hit."
Itzik Katzav was in his truck driving
his two children to school when the
bus exploded behind him. At first, he
thought he was being shot at and
pulled over to the side of the road,
telling his children to lie down on the
floor of the truck. Then he turned and
saw the bus lift up into the air.
"I saw bodies flying out of the bus,"
said Katzav, 39, who recently moved
with the San Jose Mercury News, National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice had
tough words for both leaderships.
"The Palestinian Authority," she
said, "is corrupt and cavorts with ter-
ror," and therefore "is not the basis for
a Palestinian state moving forward."
In other words, the Americans are
serious when it comes to reform.
As for the Israeli side, Rice warned
that if Sharon doesn't make the tough
decisions necessary for peace, he could
find himself out of a job.
"If the current Israeli government isn't
willing to make those decisions and the
Israeli people want to make those deci-
sions, they have a mechanism for actual-
ly changing the government," she said.
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Sharon finds himself under pressure