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Jews, though scant among the revenge-takers, did in some cases seek retribution as well--and this chapter of the post-World War II retaliation has been especially problematic (as I explain ). In a penetrating essay in the Forward last fall, Hillel Halkin asked whether Jews who pursued extremely drastic retaliation were "courageously honest in seeking to act out what others merely dreamed of, or ...
Yasser Arafat, having tried to show the Israelis he's serious about upholding his end of the just-concluded peace accords by arresting scores of Hamas members, is now, reports the WP , being threatened in a Hamas leaflet with violent retaliation.
The women claim they were promised helpful transfers if they told investigators what they wanted to hear and threatened with retaliation if they didn't.
Both expose U.S. troops to hostilities, and neither is an immediate retaliation for an attack on the United States.
According to Israel's Ha'aretz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the U.S. airstrikes despite concerns that they could lead to retaliation in the Middle East.