(Des Moines Register) Editorial - Why is it urgent that the United States hunt down terrorists, wherever they may be hiding, but Israel is not supposed to do the same thing? Arafat's refusal to surrender the militants was an unusually public example of his duplicity - pretending to want peace while protecting supporters suspected of having blood on their hands. Israel cannot be expected to tolerate more cold-blooded killing of innocent citizens. The United States surely does not genuinely expect Israel to be timid in trying to round up terrorists in its own back yard while the United States seeks to eradicate al Qaeda all over the world.
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