11.   Cabinet ministers met in an emergency meeting Monday night to determine the scope of Israeli response.

12.   Egypt withdrew its ambassador from Israel in the fall as a protest against the Israeli military response to violent Palestinian demonstrations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

13.   Even the Europeans, who generally are hostile to Israel in its long conflict with the Palestinians, could not oppose an Israeli response.

14.   From Cairo to Jordan, Arabs are venting their rage about the scores of Palestinians killed and the threatened Israeli response against Lebanon and Syria.

15.   Franklin says the Israeli response to terrorism may seem callous to an American public.

16.   He declined to comment directly on the effectiveness of the Israeli campaign but cast the Israeli response sympathetically in the context of the war against terrorism.

17.   If it is correct, we face the likelihood of increasing Palestinian violence and Israeli response, with potential unpleasant consequences throughout the Middle East.

18.   Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made it clear that an Israeli response would be immediate and massive.

19.   Israeli officials have been concerned for months about the development of a Palestinian missile capability and warned that missile attacks would prompt an unprecedented Israeli response.

20.   Over the years, assassinations have become a larger part of Israeli responses to Palestinian attacks on civilians.