71.  Their hand has been strengthened by Palestinian terrorist attacks.

72.  There was debate about the offensive among Israelis, who have seen countless assaults and only an increase in Palestinian attacks in return.

73.  This amounts to advance justification of any Palestinian attack against settlers on the grounds, true or false, that they were newcomers.

74.  Together the assaults compounded the evidence that the major military Israeli offensive that ended early this month had done little to blunt the Palestinian attacks.

75.  With each Palestinian attack, Barak has come under increasing pressure to hit back hard at the Palestinian Authority, as Dahlan personally discovered Monday night.

76.  Witness all the years wasted because of Palestinian terrorist attacks and Israeli retaliation, troop movements and street violence.

77.  Zinni returned to the Middle East because a decrease in Palestinian attacks against Israel encouraged Washington to believe that progress toward a formal cease-fire might be possible.

78.  Zinni condemned the Palestinian attacks, and vowed to keep working.

79.  Palestinian attacks, most staged by Islamic militants opposed to the peace deal, have bogged down talks on expanding the Palestinian self-rule.

80.  Palestinians insist that all the settlements be dismantled, and settlers have been frequent targets of Palestinian attacks.