When the clandestine leadership of the Palestinian uprising issued a call last week for increased attacks on Jews "using all the means of struggle available," the response was swift. Palestinians stabbed four Israeli bus passengers, one fatally, in Tel Aviv, and three Israelis were wounded when shots were fired at a bus traveling through the West Bank.
That violence raised fears that the three-year-long uprising has entered a new and more deadly phase, in which stones are being supplanted by knives and guns.
Israeli security forces responded by doubling the number of roadblocks in Israel and the West Bank, searching Palestinian...
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