- The Guardian, Friday March 7 2008
Israeli medics and emergency personnel outside The Wohl Torah Center in Jerusalem. Photograph: Nati Shohat/EPA
Atrocities in the Middle East are often carefully planned and the Palestinian gunman who killed eight Israelis in Jerusalem last night may have been carrying out a dual act of revenge for the recent onslaught in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of a Hizbullah commander in Damascus.
The shooting at a Jewish seminary in the west of the city, far from Palestinian areas , matters for several reasons:
· It was the first attack in Jerusalem for four years
· It seemed intended to send the message that Israel's attacks on its enemies, either in Gaza, Lebanon or Syria would not go unanswered
· It reinforced the assumption that action on one front would bring a response on another.
· It will make it harder than before to achieve progress in the near-moribund peace process.
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