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- <text id=90TT3355>
- <title>
- Dec. 17, 1990: World Notes:Israel
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- ISRAEL
- From Stones To Guns?
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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