Word: fatah
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...Israeli lives helped put Israel into its current predicament in the West Bank and Gaza. But for the Palestinian militants, there is no debate. The Hizballah strategy is being pursued by a range of Palestinian militant groups, ranging from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to elements of Arafat's own Fatah organization and even cells created by Hizballah itself, who see firing on Israeli soldiers and settlers with assault rifles and mortars, setting off remote-controlled roadside bombs and sending suicide bombers into Israel itself as the tactics of attrition they believe will eventually turn Israeli public opinion against hanging onto...
...promised his people it would bring. And as he approached his moment of truth at Camp David, it was the Palestinian leader who had most reason to be alarmed by Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon. Because for Palestinian militants, both of the Islamist stripe and of his own Fatah organization, the lesson of Lebanon was that Israel could be forced to cede control of occupied territory if it were forced to pay a high enough price. Once Arafat launched a second intifada, it was those militants rather than the aging PLO chairman who claimed the strategic initiative in Palestinian politics...
...Arafat may have some control over the militants in his own Fatah organization, but he is not capable of restricting the Islamist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Today the Israelis defused 20 powerful roadside bombs in Gaza, and there was some mortar shelling. And if he goes after the Islamists, he'd be in big trouble among his own people and throughout the Arab world. On the ground, the radical line is winning these days...
With so much blame to go around and such thirst for revenge, neither side's leadership seems willing or able to find a way out. Sharon called the deaths a "horrific murder" and ordered a missile strike on Yasser Arafat's Fatah offices in Gaza City, which wounded 20 Palestinians. But Sharon is caught between his hard-line constituents' demands to raise an iron hand against the Palestinians and the outside world's pleas to pursue a diplomatic solution. Even as fresh blood soaked the soil of the disputed land, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was in Europe searching...
...terrorist activity in areas under its control. The collapse of the peace process and the rising tide of violence has seen Arafat's security forces unwilling to act against Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militant groups they had previously policed - indeed, the rank and file of Arafat's own Fatah organization tends to see the Islamists as brothers in arms, and has been coordinating activities on the ground in Gaza with those groups. And while suicide bombings inside Israel are the signature modus operandi of the Islamist groups, Fatah militants and members of Arafat's security forces also have been...