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...government of President Muhammad Khatami has moved to end support for terrorism. The problem is that while the recent election showed Khatami commands overwhelming public support, his real power is limited to the point of paralysis by a political system that puts unelected conservative clergymen in charge of the apparatus of power...
...celebrate martyrdom. So while Israel has reportedly drawn up a list of targets for even heavier air strikes if it is unsatisfied by Arafat's cease-fire efforts, under present circumstances the Jewish State's best hope of stemming the tide of suicide bombings remains Arafat's own security apparatus. Israel has targeted those forces in retaliation for bombings authored by his Islamist rivals precisely because it blames the Palestinian leader for not policing their activities...
...Israelis appear to recognize that they need Arafat's security apparatus to stop the suicide bombings...
...generation of Palestinians who waged the first intifada from 1987 into the early 1990s had watched with considerable skepticism as Arafat brought the PLO exile apparatus back from Tunis, installed them as the pashas of the West Bank and Gaza towns handed over to him under Oslo, and promised to negotiate away the Israeli occupation and in its place put a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. By last year, the peace process had delivered precious little of what Arafat had promised his people it would bring. And as he approached his moment of truth at Camp David...
...after all “there has been only one Hitler.” And they’re right, but that observation rather misses the point, because alongside Hitler there was Himmler, and Goering, and Goebbels, and Heydrich—not to mention the whole Nazi Party apparatus, made up of ordinary German folk. And if you think, like Daniel Goldhagen of Hitler’s Willing Executioners fame, that killing your neighbor is a uniquely Deutsche phenomenon, then maybe you’d like to be introduced to all the conquered European peoples who happily set about shipping...