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...listening. But Arafat wasn't always guarded. The Israeli spies not only heard the chairman's private phone conversations but also were privy to some intense intramural squabbling. In one recent incident, Israeli agents listened in as an angry Arafat shoved his chief of Preventive Security in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan...
...proclaimed the shooter a “hero.” And Arafat himself told his followers, “we will make the lives of the infidels hell,” a clear reference to Israelis. One of Arafat’s top lieutenants, Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan, was recently quoted as saying that Palestinian suicide bombings against Israeli civilians are a “legitimate form of self-defense.” Most recently, when a Hamas suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis during a Passover meal on March 27, Arafat, in a phone interview with Al Jazeera...
...also created political divisions in Arafat's camp, among some of the men routinely touted as his potential successors. Guerrilla warfare works for Barghouti, for example, because many of the gunmen report to him. Less so for Arafat's West Bank and Gaza security chiefs, Jibril Rajoub and Mohammed Dahlan, whose organizations bear the brunt of Israeli retaliation and whose authority is undermined by the existence of independent armed militias in their midst. To the exasperation of his gendarmes, Arafat has refrained from directly challenging the right of those militias to function, even though he periodically orders the arrest...
...terrorism, and pays a political price for any perceived failure. Further, he believes the situation is deteriorating because of what he sees as negligence on the part of his security apparatus. Three months ago, Arafat reportedly unleashed a similar (though not physical) tirade against his Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan...
...argue, because while Arafat makes no bones about his wishes behind closed doors, he has refrained from publicly issuing decrees ordering the arrest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders or the disarming of Fatah militias. And in the absence of unambiguous public pronouncements by the chairman of the PA, Dahlan and Rajoub say it is difficult to sustain a crackdown. But Arafat remains reluctant to risk the ire of a substantial portion of Palestinian public opinion by openly declaring war on many of the forces that have been at the heart of the current intifada...