On Sunday 25 February 1996 a Palestinian student stepped onto acrowded bus in Jerusalem and detonated a bomb, killing twenty-sixIsraelis. One week later a second Palestinian detonated a bomb on aJerusalem bus, killing eighteen Israelis. The following day a knownMuslim extremist lay down on a busy street in Tel Aviv and blew himselfup along with ten Israelis. These attacks were designed to undermine andhalt what extremist groups viewed as the humiliating and misguidedPalestinian Israeli peace process, and within three months they hadachieved this goal. On 26 May 1996 Israelis replaced Prime MinisterShimon Peres with the more hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu, and soonthereafter negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authoritystalled. Although the bombings were clearly the work of a small band ofPalestinian extremists, these extremists were able to convince amajority of Israeli citizens to walk away from a peace process most ofthem strongly supported.
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