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...Then, a suicide bomber from a group linked with Arafat's own Fatah organization killed two Israelis and wounded 40 more in downtown Jerusalem. That prompted angry words from the Israelis and President Bush, and Arafat vowed to find culprits. He had, after all, urged an end to Palestinian attacks inside Israel's 1967 borders - his aides noted that these play badly in international eyes and therefore undermine the Palestinian cause. That's not exactly the principled renunciation of terrorism the Israelis and the Bush administration have demanded, and so far even that statement appears to have failed to convince...
...distinction between attacks inside and outside Israel may be a telling indicator of Arafat's intentions - attacks on Israeli cities are impolitic, according to Arafat's top aides, but the militants of Fatah believe that attacks on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza will eventually force Israel to withdraw to its 1967 borders. Arafat may be inclined to believe that their efforts have helped restore his political standing - and also that he needs a cease-fire a lot less than the Israelis and Americans...
Maybe he will. But Fatah leaders say the Palestinian chief has no plans to punish anyone who attacks soldiers and settlers in the Palestinian territories--the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It's an unpleasant distinction, but as the Fatah leaders see it, suicide bombings within Israel look like damnable terrorism to the outside world, while West Bank shootings cast the Palestinians as guerrillas waging a war against a foreign occupation. "Fatah is free to fight settlers and the army at any place in the West Bank but not inside the Green Line," says a senior Fatah official, referring...
...injured in five separate attacks within Israel proper, including the suicide bombing Saturday of a Jerusalem restaurant near the Prime Minister's residence. Three of the assaults were claimed by militant Islamic groups over which Arafat has little control, and two were claimed by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Fatah group...
...operations inside these camps are intended in part to enable soldiers to arrest bombmakers and gunmen, though the wanted men are often able to flee in time. A greater benefit of these operations, TIME has learned from senior Israeli officers, is to force the gunmen from the Tanzim, a Fatah militia, to exert their energy by defending their homes in the camps instead of by plotting attacks on Israelis...