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Arie Schmidt stopped on Saturday to place a pebble on the memorial to the 21 dead at the Dolphinarium disco, killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas in 2001. Mr. Schmidt sighed, then chained one careful word to the next on what it means that Hamas is now the official Palestinian power. Mr. Schmidt, 56, a computer engineer from Haifa, said that now we see the real face of the Palestinians. Arie Schmidt, stopped on Saturday to place a pebble on the memorial to the 21 dead at the Dolphinarium disco, killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas in 2001. He believes that this is actually the best thing that can happen to Israel since now they see the real face of the Palestinians. Mr. Schmidt, 56, a computer engineer from Haifa who considers himself neither on the left nor the right, said that he thinks that Hamas can understand there is no way to destroy the state of Israel and will take a course to peace.