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In January 2002, Israel seemed to be awash in blood. “And the blood cries out to the heavens,” lamented MK Yair Peretz (Shas). He was referring specifically to the fact that the tablecloths in a Hadera banquet hall—where a wedding celebration had been savagely sundered by a terrorist attack— were no longer white but crimson with blood and perforated by bullet holes. “The barbaric attacks on innocent celebrators,” Peretz added, “are the very embodiment of this despicable terrorism. The terrorist monster can never be sated. You chop off one head and immediately two new ones emerge.” 1
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Ben-Eliezer, U. (2012). Operation Defensive Shield. In: Old Conflict, New War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027573_8
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