Israel Awareness Update
March 14, 2002
By: Yoni Merola, Natick USY Programming VP

For the past few weeks violence continues to occur in Israel. The fight 
between Israelis and Palestinians are heating up and some kind of resolution 
or outside force is bound to intervene any day now. Today, 3 soldiers were 
killed in the Gaza Strip in a landmine explosion and many deaths such as this 
incident have occurred this whole week. As Israel continues to fight back, the 
Arab settlement of Ramallah remains obliterated. Both Jews and Palestinians 
are scared for their lives. In Ramallah, there is no water, food, and all the 
roads are chewed up by tank tracks. For those of you that don't know Ramallah 
is the primary Arab settlement in the West Bank. With President George W. Bush 
offering his harshest criticism yet of Israel's operations in Ramallah, US 
special envoy Anthony Zinni left for Israel yesterday for an open-ended 
mission aimed at securing an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire, a week after Bush 
announced his decision to renew Zinni's peacemaking mission. "Fr! ankly, it is 
not helpful what the Israelis have recently done," Bush said. "I understand 
somebody trying to defend themselves... but the recent actions are not 
helpful." As Bush continues to take drastic steps to end this crisis, the 
turmoil in the Jewish Nation continues. Let us hope that peace is near.

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