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Lawmakers Come out for Israel, Urging Bush to Get More Active President George W. Bush makes remarks at the White House, April 2002. (Shawn Thew/AFP via Getty Images)
Congress may be in recess, but lawmakers are following events in Israel and making their voices heard.
While isolated voices in Congress may be criticizing Israel, leading senators from both parties have expressed support for Israel, denounced Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and said President Bush must step up his involvement in Middle East diplomacy to try to stop the violence.
Lieberman urged that Secretary of State Colin Powell be sent to the region to address aspects of a recent peace initiative from Saudi Arabia, which calls for the Arab world to make peace with Israel if it withdraws from all land it won in the 1967 Six-Day War and meets a host of other conditions.
As shown by the wreckage of an Egged bus blown up Dec. 2, 2001, the blast April 10, 2002, was not the first suicide bombing on a bus in Haifa during the Second Intifada. The December 2001 bombing killed 15 passengers; the April 2002 attack killed eight Israelis: Keren Franco, Noa Shlomo, Shlomi Ben-Haim, Nir Danieli, Zeâev Henik, Michael Weissmann, Shimon Stelkol and Avinoam Alafia.
Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office