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...Yasser Arafat looked as if he couldn't believe his bulging eyes. Inspecting the damage to his living quarters caused by the latest Israeli assault on his Ramallah headquarters last week, the Palestinian leader checked out the new window in his bathroom, courtesy of Israeli firepower; a broken mirror hanging above a photograph of him with his daughter, now 6 years old; the scattering of debris covering his exercise bike and bed. "I was supposed to sleep here last night, but I had some work downstairs. Everybody knows this is my bedroom," he told reporters, suggesting that the Israeli troops...
...fact, they hadn't. The Israelis had warned Arafat in advance that they were coming. Their orders were to destroy half the buildings in Arafat's compound (called the Muqata'a), which they did over the course of a six-hour onslaught, but to leave Arafat unscathed, just as they had in a similar raid starting in late March. This new attack was payback for a bombing the day before that killed 17 Israelis. But the bombing had been claimed by Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian group that does not answer to Arafat and, moreover, opposes...
...part, the Israelis struck at Arafat because they could. Israeli military officials acknowledge that though they knew Islamic Jihad was to blame, they didn't have specific intelligence immediately available enabling them to hit directly at the group. In that sense, rocketing Arafat's compound was a bit like being angry at your spouse and therefore kicking the dog. Beyond that, the Israelis insist that Arafat is responsible for all Palestinian terrorism, not just the attacks carried out by the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of his Fatah organization. Their argument is that Arafat does not seriously go after...
...language newspaper, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that, as part of efforts to create a full Palestinian state, it might be necessary to have a provisional state as an interim step. He also made it clear that the U.S. would continue working with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. But White House spokesman Ari Fleischer failed to endorse Powell's remarks, saying that he was not expressing his own views but those of Arab leaders. IRAN Voice of David Iranian state radio launched a daily broadcast in Hebrew aimed at countering what Iran sees as "the monopoly...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been free from the Israeli siege on his headquarters for one month--long enough, arguably, to demonstrate whether he is sincere this time about cracking down on Palestinian terrorists. In the current environment, though, it seems Arafat's desires, whatever they may be, are not enough. His security forces were so battered by recent Israeli military incursions that they are almost completely ineffectual, according to Arafat's senior aides. "Our capability is zero," Jibril Rajoub, head of preventive security in the West Bank, told TIME. "Our motivation also is zero." In today's climate, Palestinian...