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After the bloody bombing last week, Israeli author David Grossman published a plea for help in the daily newspaper Ma'ariv: "Israel and the Palestinians are no longer capable of reaching, by themselves, an arrangement that will promise them true peace. They are the captives of their history and psychology and have lost the ability to save themselves from it." Asking Washington to intervene, Grossman wrote, "If somebody in the world still cares about what is going on here, he'd better do something." But even if the Clinton Administration decides to answer that call, it will be harder than ever to figure out what that "something" is.
--With reporting by Dean Fischer/Washington and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem