AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
JERUSALEM _ Desensitized by 20 months of worsening violence, many here seem to have lost the capacity to be shocked. One horror bleeds into the next, and everyday outrages become outrageously ordinary.
But Friday's newspaper headlines describing how the Jewish wife of a Palestinian man helped drive a suicide bomber to the scene of his attack stunned even jaded Israelis.
A double-identity twist revealed Saturday staggered them again.
"It's bad enough that we have to face sometimes the involvement of Israeli Arabs in terror attacks" by Palestinians, Yael Dayan, a Labor Party member of the Knesset, said when the story broke. "When a Jew, man or woman, is involved, it's much more ...