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- WORLD, Page 43World NotesISRAELFrom Stones To Guns?
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- When the clandestine leadership of the Palestinian uprising
- issued a call last week for increased attacks on Jews "using
- all the means of struggle available," the response was swift.
- Palestinians stabbed four Israeli bus passengers, one fatally,
- in Tel Aviv, and three Israelis were wounded when shots were
- fired at a bus traveling through the West Bank.
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- That violence raised fears that the three-year-long uprising
- has entered a new and more deadly phase, in which stones are
- being supplanted by knives and guns.
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- Israeli security forces responded by doubling the number of
- roadblocks in Israel and the West Bank, searching Palestinian
- laborers with hand-held metal detectors and preventing many
- from entering Israel. In the wake of the stabbings, police in
- East Jerusalem are wearing knife-proof vests and patrolling
- Arab neighborhoods in teams. Defense Minister Moshe Arens hopes
- to appease an angry public by resuming the controversial
- deportation of suspected "ringleaders," and has asked
- government attorneys to streamline the necessary legal
- proceedings. Says Arens: "We will fight fire with fire."
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