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MIDDLE EAST Arafat Emerges, Defiant, amid the Rubble Israel lifted its siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, but tensions remained high outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Playing down the damage to his compound, Arafat angrily denounced the Israelis for a "big crime" against a "sacred place" after fighting and fire broke out at the church, where Israel was demanding the surrender of dozens of Palestinian fighters. He also condemned Israel's assault on the Jenin refugee camp, the deaths of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and infrastructure damage. The Palestinian leader later toured Ramallah...
...part, Arafat is enjoying the freedom he gained when the Israelis ended their siege of his Ramallah compound. His supporters are enjoying it too. In Bethlehem, where Palestinian gunmen, civilian officials and priests at the Church of the Nativity have been under siege almost as long as Arafat, gunmen in the church thought Arafat's freedom would lead to their own release and started firing their rifles into the air in glee, sources inside the church tell Time. Israeli soldiers outside thought the shooting was directed at them and launched flares, which set fire to the roof of the church...
Unfortunately, under pressure from the U.S., Israel has decided to allow Arafat out of his shattered compound in Ramallah where he has been holed up with fellow terrorists, among others, since the Israeli invasion of the de facto Palestinian capital a month ago. This decision was an unfortunate one by Israel. By allowing Arafat out of his cage, he will be able to continue directing terrorist activities and postponing even longer the time when his people will have a state of their...
...diplomatic dance between the U.S., the Saudis, the Israelis and the Palestinian leadership, a dance made all the more delicate after a fire broke out near the Church of the Nativity during a firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinians inside. Six men wanted by Israel left Arafat's Ramallah compound Wednesday in the custody of U.S. and British officials who will oversee their confinement at a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho. On Thursday, in keeping with the plan accepted by both sides under strong pressure from the Bush administration, Israeli forces withdrew from Arafat's office, and the Palestinian leader...
...times, al-Jazeera's coverage has resembled that of a national news channel rallying its people to war. Such was the case four weeks ago, when Israel initially began the siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound. Then the visual mix was electrifying: old images of speeches by a younger, more virile Arafat spliced with startling images of bloodied faces of Palestinian victims, Israeli snipers taking aim at children, and a contemporary clip of Arafat declaring that he wanted to be a "martyr, martyr, martyr, martyr." In response, the young men at Cafe Shahine shook their fists...