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Israeli frustration versus Syrian impotence; The Middle East conflict.(Why Israel hit Syria)(suicide bombing)
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The Economist (US)
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October 11, 2003
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Why Israel, led by Ariel Sharon (above), reacted to a Palestinian suicide bomb by hitting Syria for the first time in 30 years, stoking fears of a wider Middle East war
CONSIDERING the current volume of Middle East violence, the blowing up of an empty shed in a remote ravine should sound like faint background noise. But, unlike the Palestinian suicide bomb that killed at least 19 diners at an Israeli restaurant in Haifa on October 4th, the apparently harmless demolition that came a few hours later was new and different. The shed was part of an old training camp for Palestinian guerrillas at Ain Saheb that happens to be near the Syrian capital, Damascus. The airstrike that ...
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