Word: barghouti
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...respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only 3 percent identified Abu Mazen as their Palestinian leader of choice - compared with 35 percent for Arafat, 20 percent for imprisoned intifada leader Marwan Barghouti and 15 percent for Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Arafat had hoped that Abu Mazen's domestic political weakness would make him reliant on the man who appointed him; instead Abu Mazen has sought to build a coalition of Palestinian groups to back his program. But as of Tuesday, it appeared that...
...people and prohibited religious communities that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators at the trial of Marwan Barghouti. Israel accuses Barghouti, head of Yas-ser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, of leading a militia that allegedly murdered 26 Israelis. A woman whose daughter was killed by Palestinians said Barghouti was a vampire who took "the blood of Jewish children." Before being led away he shouted...
...whatever its outcome, the trial may work to Barghouti's political advantage. Even if the Israeli court and public opinion are unimpressed by his distinction between attacks inside Israel and those on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza, even a life sentence will only enhance Barghouti's stature among Palestinians. He continues to play a key role in Palestinian political life, and his approval is considered central to current efforts by PA leaders to secure a unilateral cease-fire among militants from Fatah and Hamas. He has also signaled his intention to campaign, from prison, if need...
...Barghouti's incarceration is more likely to strengthen than diminish his claim to the mantle of Palestinian national leadership. He's already the most popular Fatah leader after the aging Arafat, and that popularity derives precisely from his willingness to challenge the PA's corruption and cronyism, and to forcefully stand up to both the Israelis and the Americans. Barghouti maintains he shares the goal of the U.S. and most Israelis of resolving the conflict by creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. But unlike them - although more in keeping with the sentiments on the Palestinian street...
...Even if the trial does create a platform for Barghouti to address his propaganda message in Hebrew to an Israeli public made all too aware that his incarceration has done nothing to stop the relentless wave of terror attacks - and also that the open-ended war with the Palestinians has accelerated a disastrous shrinkage of the Israeli economy - it may be some time before he can reap the benefits. Israel's attorney general wouldn't have ordered the trial if he wasn't confident of a conviction. And while prison may restrict Barghouti to a symbolic presence in Palestinian politics...