Tuesday: A wounded Israeli is carried into an ambulance at the site of a suicide attack outside Ariel in the West Bank.
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel — New homicide bombings in the Middle East left two Israelis dead and 11 wounded and raised more doubt as to whether a shaky peace agreement will really cease the fighting in the region.
Palestinian homicide bombers blew themselves up at a strip mall in Israel and at a bus stop at a Jewish West Bank settlement Tuesday, shattering a six-week period of relative calm that had come over the area.
The homicide bombings were the first since a Palestinian from a splinter cell within the Islamic Jihad group blew himself up inside a house near Tel Aviv on July 7, killing a 65-year-old woman.
The attacks could derail the two-month-old, U.S.-backed "road map" that was already trying to overcome compliance hurdles put forth by both the Palestinians and Israelis....
Dr. Alan Cairns | 5/18/2009
