U.S. President Bush has now said he will send CIA Director George Tenet to help build a Palestinian anti-terrorist force.
Shortly after the report on the Rishon tragedy appeared in The Jerusalem Post, the Islamic militant group, Hamas claimed responsibilty but did not name a suicide bomber.
Hamas, based in Gaza, had been spared by "Operation Defensive Shield," the current Israeli offensive, which began on March 29.
Wednesday morning, 12 hours after the pool hall bombing, a bomb was detonated at a bus stop in northern Israel, critically wounding the bomber, but causing no injuries to anyone else.
These were the first attacks upon Isreali civilians since April 12, when six people were killed in an outdoor market in Jerusalem, by a Palestinian woman suicide bomber.
Alex Fischman, a military commentator wrote in the Yediot Ahronot daily "What we had over the past two weeks was a lull, a very temporary one.… Operation Defensive Shield made suicide bombers multiply like mushrooms after the rain."
Israeli Army commanders have repeatedly advised that military force can reduce, but not end suicide attacks.
Shortly after the report on the Rishon tragedy appeared in The Jerusalem Post, the Islamic militant group, Hamas claimed responsibilty but did not name a suicide bomber.
Hamas, based in Gaza, had been spared by "Operation Defensive Shield," the current Israeli offensive, which began on March 29.
Wednesday morning, 12 hours after the pool hall bombing, a bomb was detonated at a bus stop in northern Israel, critically wounding the bomber, but causing no injuries to anyone else.
These were the first attacks upon Isreali civilians since April 12, when six people were killed in an outdoor market in Jerusalem, by a Palestinian woman suicide bomber.
Alex Fischman, a military commentator wrote in the Yediot Ahronot daily "What we had over the past two weeks was a lull, a very temporary one.… Operation Defensive Shield made suicide bombers multiply like mushrooms after the rain."
Israeli Army commanders have repeatedly advised that military force can reduce, but not end suicide attacks.