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Even Israelis are beginning to wonder what on earth Ariel Sharon's soldiers are doing in Orient House. As a bloodless retaliation for the crime of last week's Palestinian suicide bomber who murdered 15 Israelis, and as a way of tweaking Yasser Arafat's ever-greying moustache, storming the Palestinian offices must have seemed a bright idea. No bodies, no wounded children, no world outcry; just the Israeli Star of David banner fluttering in the summer breeze over the 19th-century Jerusalem building with its pitched roof and delicate tracery windows. Full Story