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...president. "And the Palestinian leaders who block and undermine democratic reform, and feed hatred and encourage violence are not leaders at all. They're the main obstacles to peace, and to the success of the Palestinian people." In the Arab world, however, the U.S.-Israeli effort to sideline Yasser Arafat looks decidedly hypocritical - for all his warts, Arafat remains the democratically elected president of the Palestinian Authority (and as such, the only democratically elected leader in the Arab world). One reason the U.S. has steered conspicuously clear of demanding that Israel take the necessary steps to allow the Palestinians...
...statements. Sharon's office initially demanded a retraction, then backed off, realizing that taking on the army - Israel's most popular institution - probably wasn't a good idea. Still, Yaalon's critique could subtly alter the dynamic in the region. Abbas resigned in frustration after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to relinquish control of all 12 Palestinian security services, sabotaging the Prime Minister's plans to crack down on terrorism. But the man Arafat is expected to name as the new Prime Minister this week, Ahmed Qurie, might get off to a better start. Senior Palestinian security officials tell Time...
...suspects denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.), a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells TIME that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.L.F. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development...
Israeli intelligence officials, however, believe the attack may have been the work of Fatah chiefs in the Gaza town of Rafah, who are feuding with Arafat over his efforts to slow the traffic in weapons smuggled there through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. The attack, they say, was meant to hurt Arafat's global standing, to force him to back off. It certainly put Arafat in a tight spot. The U.S., which sent an FBI team to investigate the bombing, blamed the Palestinian leader for hindering progress against terrorism by blocking the appointment of an Interior Minister to coordinate...
...usual suspects denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front, a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells Time that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat?s Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.l.f. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development Israeli intelligence officials, however, believe the attack may have been the work of Fatah chiefs...