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...Israelis may be doing this to send a message to more senior Fatah leaders such as Marwan Bargouti and Hussein Sheikh, saying 'We know where you live.' They're hoping to frighten those guys off and make them think twice about the consequences of attacks on Israelis, regardless of what they're saying I public. But whether this will actually make them think twice remains to be seen. Bargouti's office in Ramallah was previously rocketed when he wasn't there. Now they've got one of his guys, and they're saying 'It could have been you.' But there...
Does the rocket attack that killed a Bethlehem Fatah militia leader in his car mark a tactical shift by the Israeli forces in the West Bank...
...escalation that Israel has been warning of, in its repeated threat that it will 'know what to do' if violence persists. Throughout the current intifada, the Israelis have been saying they know the individuals behind this. The Israelis blame Fatah's Tanzim militia for most of the violence. Hussein Abayat, the guy who was killed, was fairly powerful in his neighborhood, and the Israelis believe he was behind the attacks on the Gilo neighborhood, which had so frightened Israeli public opinion...
...weeks has reduced the Israeli public's confidence in the peace process to an all-time low. On the Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat's efforts to restore calm. Even local leaders of his own Fatah organization have called for an escalation of the confrontation with Israel despite Arafat's attempts to rein in the street...
...weeks has reduced the Israeli public's confidence in the peace process to an all-time low. On the Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat's efforts to restore calm. Even local leaders of his own Fatah organization have called for an escalation of the confrontation with Israel despite Arafat's attempts to rein in the street...