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Terrorist attacks in Israel are increasingly funded by two radical Islamic groups that have long been at odds with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. They began financial support for Fatah gunmen and suicide bombers about six months ago, but according to senior Palestinian security sources, the money has recently begun flowing more freely. This is not just bad news for Israel's security services, already facing a constant deluge of alerts and attacks. It is also a blow to Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which particularly fears losing influence over the gunmen to Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad...
Yasser Arafat doesn't deal delicately with threats to his power. When former Cabinet Minister Nabil Amr called in September for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special forces fire a few warning shots at Amr's home. Leaders of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization got the message. Scheduled to vote on reform a few days after the attack, they swallowed their criticisms instead...
...there are less dramatic arrests every night, more than 2,000 since Tibon took over. Last month, an operation in the Balata refugee camp on the edge of Nablus netted Lou'i Abdo, a prominent member of the Tanzim, part of the militant wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. But Tibon's terrorist hunt isn't focused on the top suspects on the wanted list. Instead, he works from the bottom up. That way, he figures, the master-terrorists lose their support network and, when Israel eventually tracks them down, there'll be no deputies left to replace them...
...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: "We will be victorious over the occupation." Meanwhile, British leader...
...unlikely to regain lost ground. Indeed, nothing will accelerate his fall faster than handing over more men to the Israelis to end yet another siege - the deals he cut to end the previous siege in the Spring were widely condemned by ordinary Palestinians, and particularly within Fatah...