Background / Israel's dwindling anti-terror arsenal

Dispatching a squadron of human bombs to kill a dozen Israelis in five attacks over 48 hours, the unrelenting Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades of Yasser Arafat's Fatah have rocked Israel to the ropes.

As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government prepares its response, its policymaking latitude has run into a fresh obstacle: the Israel military has all but exhausted its list of remaining new options for battling terrorism.
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There is one option that the Sharon government hasn't tried — negotiation. Maybe it's time Sharon stoped talking about painful concessions and actually made some. And don't talk to me about negotiating with terrorists — don't forget that the state of Israel was founded on Jewish terrorism. The Palestinians are fighting for the right of self-determination against a brutal military occupation. They aren't going to stop until the occupation ends and they can determine their own future.