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Show ‘The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Friday, August 10, 2001 15 Killed in Suicide Bombing at Jerusalem Pizzeria New Jersey woman among the dead; Palestinian groups claim responsibility children and nail-studded explosiveinside a crowded Jerusalem pizzeria at lunchtime Thursday,iy s people, wounding almost and provoking a waveof. rsraett outrage. One ofthe dead was an American woman. Islamic Jihad and Hamas, militant Palestinian groups that have been carrying out — againstIsrael for years, Tesponsibility Lees the bombing at Sbarro, a New York-based chain. Most ofthe dead were Israelis, but they included at least one American, identified by police as Judith oe of New Jersey, and a Brazilian man, Giora Balash, 60. Their hometowns were not made public. Hanna Tova Nachemberg, 31, of New York City was criti- cally wounded with shrapnel in her chest, according to Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx, As ‘Israelis mourned the dead — including several the restaurant. injured, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced a major decision on howto respondto the attack, BY GREG MYRE ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS set off the explosive, gutting hospitals strug ose te eritcaly the second in more than 10 months offighting. Sharon has pledged to hit back hard against terrorattacks, but sucha strike could send violence sisine out of control. The leader refrained from tery action following a suicide attack two months ago thatleft 22 dead, pressuring P leader Yasser Arafat to declare a cease-fire. Butwith the truce in shambles, few were in the mood for restraint. “We are in a. war,” Jerusalem’s Mayor Ehud Olmert said sible for terror,to hit them and them.” President Bush condemned hensive cease-fire.” corner of two of Jerusalem's busiest downtown streets and OVERSTOCKED SALE! ee ee Ae Bush Blamedfor‘Ineffective’ Response BY WARREN P. STROBEL KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSSERVICE WASHINGTON — Thursday’s bombing in Jerusalem, which killed at least 15 people, is boundto increase pressure on President Bush to try to stop the escalating bloodshed in the Middle East. Butit also demonstrated howintractable the violence has become. The president has few attractive choices, according to Bush administration officials and outside experts on the Middle East. Many experts, liowever, say that Bush mustincrease U.S. involvement and threaten Palestinian leader Yasser‘Arafat andIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon‘with real consequences if they do not pull back. Thosé threats could include American “red lines” that the combatants are warned not to cross, sufh as a full-scale Israeli invasion of the West and Gaza Strip, whichsome in the regionfe Even it not work, the analysts concede, givéh that elis and Palestinians seem far from exhausted in their willingness to inflict pain on each other, Both Sharon and Arafat have broad po) support for continuingthefight. But Bush’s ap) ich, which involves pleas from afar, has proved ineffective, manysay. “The hold-back, don’t-do-anything strategy hasn’t worked,”said William Qu it, who as an aide to dent Jim y Carter helped fashion the Camp! id accord that led to a peace treaty betweenIsrael and Egypt. “The administration has done pretty much whatit could.It’s time to read them [Arafat and Sharon] the riot act,” said Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a m-based research center. “We have to make themafraid of us.” While the violence does not directly affect U.S. national security,it threatens American citizens in the region and friendly Arab regimes, andit could spark a war thatdisrupts oil exports. . Former Rep. Lee Hamilton said that Bush, like any new president, took a standoffish approachto the Middle East. Now,like every president before him, he will be dragged into intensive mediation, Hamilton predicted. American actions could include: publicly holding oneside or the other responsiblefor violating a U.S.-brokered cease-fire, as formerspecial Middle East envoy Dennis Ross has suggested; nonstop, high-level mediation; and threats to cut aid or downgrade diplomatic contacts. Bush’s policy has been consistent, and it is impossible to prove that another approach would have achieved more. Since assuming office, he has rejected former President Clinton’:Ss deep involvementin MiddleBast whichBush advisers argue Wasted political capital and thenfailed, leading to bloodshed. Bush andSecretary ofState Colin Powell have placed the onus on Sharon andArafatto end the violence before Washington gets more involved. In that vein, Bush issued a statement Thursday demanding that both sides live up to past ceasefire commitments. 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