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World
Officials question Israeli soldier’s actions
Response to Palestinian attack raises national debate over responsibility in the face of violence
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A single photograph
— that of a young Israeli soldier cowering un
der the blows of a Palestinian mob — ignited a
fierce nationwide debate Thursday over
whether Israel has lost its military nerve.
The photo was splashed across the front
pages of every newspaper in Israel.
While the prime minister and others won
dered out loud why the soldier never opened
fire with his M-16 rifle Wednesday, other Israelis
insisted the new recruit would not be alive to
day if he had acted otherwise.
“What has happened to us, for God’s sake?
Are we a country with a strong defense force
or have we turned into a country of wimps?”
wrote Yaacov Erez, the editor-in-chief of the
Maariv newspaper.
Assaf Meyara, 19, was recovering Thursday
from multiple injuries inflicted by a dozen Pales
tinians who smashed the windows of the car he
was sitting in, dragged him out and struck him
repeatedly with chunks of concrete.
The ambush prompted Prime Minister Ben
jamin Netanyahu to freeze troop withdrawals
from the West Bank and suspend implementing
the latest U.S.-brokered Mideast peace accord.
Netanyahu suggested Thursday that Meyara
should have followed open-fire procedures and
should have been more prepared.
“If a soldier or civilian is caught in a life-
threatening situation, it is his right and even his
“ffa soldier or civilian
is caught in a life-
threatening situation,
it is his right and even
his obligation to save
himself in accordance
with the law.”
- BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER
obligation to save himself in accordance with
the law,” he told reporters.
Defenders of Meyara’s actions, including Pres
ident Ezer Weizman, said it was a mistake to
judge a young soldier newly assigned to the often
violent West Bank. On radio talk shows, many Is
raelis said Meyara escaped alive because he did
not open fire and risk the chance of having his
gun grabbed and turned against him.
‘Assaf was in (the West Bank) for all of three
weeks, without a full briefing, without experi
ence, he was alone without other soldiers and
he acted like any officer, general or even the
army’s chief-of-staff would have to save his life,”
said Meyara’s mother, Lisa.
In a military-minded country where a ma
jority of its citizens are drafted for lengthy army
service, many questions regarding standard
training and procedures were raised as a result
of Wednesday’s attack.
Meyara’s rifle was not loaded, and some re
ports suggested it was in the back seat of the car
instead of in Meyara’s possession at the time —
both serious violations of army regulations.
Moments before the car Meyara was riding
in was attacked, an Israeli army jeep drove
through the same intersection on the outskirts
of the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah.
The jeep was pelted with chunks of rock by the
same group of Palestinians and then drove off,
rather than remain on the scene, clear the junc
tion and help protect other Israeli cars.
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Border killing breaches cease-fire in Kosovo
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) —
In the worst breach of the Koso
vo cease-fire, Yugoslav border
guards killed eight ethnic Alba
nians on Thursday, adding new
urgency to the efforts of the U.S.
envoy who is trying to negotiate
a permanent peace.
Several other armed incidents
were reported as envoy Christo
pher Hill presented Serbian Presi
dent Milan Milutinovic with a re
vised plan for the future of the
Serb province.
Hill said some progress was be
ing made, but warned that time
was at a premium because of fears
that fighting, which had been at a
lull as winter approached, could
resume by spring.
“I feel a sense of urgency,” Hill
said. “Spring should be the time for
plowing and not for fighting.”
The eight armed ethnic Albani
ans were killed near the town of
Prizren when nine of them fired
on Yugoslav soldiers guarding the
border with Albania, the pro-gov
ernment Serbian Media Center
said. Yugoslav troops were not in
jured, the center said.
"/ feel a sense of
urgency. Spring
should be a time for
plowing and not for
fighting”
— Christopher Hill
U.S. envoy to Kosovo
Yugoslavia’s army command
confirmed the deaths and said the
Albanians were trying to cross the
border into Kosovo illegally.
Ethnic Albanian rebels, who
have been fighting for Kosovo’s in
dependence, have frequently used
illegal border routes to arm them
selves in neighboring Albania.
The clash came a day after
three ethnic Albanians were
gunned down in their car in Koso
vo’s capital Pristina. A woman
pedestrian was injured. Serbian
police said they found three auto
matic weapons and two hand
grenades in the car, which was
raked by machine-gun fire.
On Thursday, rebel spokesper
son Adem Demaci blamed the
killings on Serbia’s secret police,
saying one of the victims was a
leading member of the rebel Koso
vo Liberation Army while the two
others were civilians: a journalist
of the main Albanian language
newspaper Bujku and a universi
ty student.
The journalist, Afrim Malici,
had complaine he was being fol
lowed by Serbia’s secret service,
his colleagues said.
Before meeting with Miluti
novic, Hill said the new draft re
flects previous comments by rival
Serb and ethnic Albanian officials
on how to achieve a settlement for
the ethnic Albanian-majority
province in southern Serbia.
Kosovo’s Albanian leadership
wants independence from Ser
bia but is willing to settle for full
autonomy as a first step. Serbia
and the Serb leaders of Yu
goslavia are strongly opposed to
any plan on Kosovo that would
sidestep Serbia.
Hill did not elaborate, but said
the plan does not explicitly spec
ify whether Kosovo will become
the third Yugoslav republic or
would remain a Serb province.
Republic status for Kosovo would
give it equal say with Serbia and
Montenegro, the two republics
that make up Yugoslavia.
Hill planned to present the plan
to ethnic Albanian officials Friday.
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steps toward making Apr!
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mocratic and La
bor Party and
militant Sinn
Fein, accused the
British Protestant
party, the Ulster
Unionists, of re
treating from
commitments
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Prime Minister Tony BL
The prime minister’s:
son, Alastair Campbell,
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had not been able tobu
progress made last nighM
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tions had arisen."
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Catholic politicians were
confident they and die
Unionists would annotmcei
hours two key planks oh:
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post Executive administrai
would work alongsideii
government in seven poll
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