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...Into Nablus - Again As CIA Director George Tenet left Washington for the Middle East to discuss the prospects for renewed Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, Israeli forces moved back into Nablus and Qalqilya. Among those arrested in the West Bank raids was Issam Abu Bakr, a senior official of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization in Nablus. Troops went from house to house in the Balata refugee camp, a main base of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, responsible for a recent suicide bombing near Tel Aviv in which two Israelis were killed. ITALY Mamma Mafia Two carloads of gangsters sped through...
...favorite U.S. auteur, showed up to say he loved the French and commended them for voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever Palestinian film in competition: Elia Suleiman's monstrously witty Divine Intervention, in which a balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats across an Israeli military checkpoint, and a Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went...
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...
...Even Arafat's talk of reform, elections by year's end and a new cabinet within a week, has done nothing to ease the plight of ordinary Palestinians. For the residents of the West Bank, Arafat's new freedom of movement contrasts with the Israeli chokehold on their own daily lives, and ability to earn a living - and the blockade on many of those towns is tighter than ever. Half of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza now lives below the poverty line, and even middle class residents of established West Bank towns are reduced to begging...
...than the Israelis are, and the two effects tend to reinforce each other: The Israelis are in the West Bank because they don't believe the PA can or will enforce security; the patent impotence of those security forces in the face of the Israelis deepens Palestinian contempt for Arafat's gendarmes and emboldens the militants to simply ignore the efforts by the PA leadership to halt attacks inside Israel. More terror attacks push Israelis to demand further action; the hatred inspired by the collective punishment endured by the Palestinian population suggests the PA won't get much domestic support...