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...maintaining support for the peace process among his own people. The slaughter in the mosque only made things much worse: some of the subsequent rioting and demonstrations took a sharply anti-Arafat as well as anti-Israeli tone. When Faisal Husseini, the head of the West Bank division of Fatah, Arafat's own faction, visited the Dome of the Rock in East Jerusalem, Palestinian mobs stoned him until he was forced to leave. They chanted, "Arafat is a bastard!" or "Arafat is a Jew!" In Lebanon, Munir Magdah, a former Fatah leader, urged Arafat to commit suicide...
Moreover, even if the charter is amended, we still can't be certain that the Palestinians will be satisfied with Israel's territorial concessions. Extremist groups like Hamas have stepped up their attacks on Israelis in recent months in protest of the agreement. Even Arafat's own Fatah Hawks have engaged in violence in the past few weeks, in violation of the agreement...
...will have to be reached to preserve Arafat's credibility as leader of the P.L.O. While Rabin's government has thus far fended off no-confidence motions in the Knesset sponsored by the right-wing opposition, Arafat has been shaken by a recent spate of resignations from his own Fatah movement. According to Ghassan Khatib, a West Bank-based official with the People's Party, a constituent party of the P.L.O., the continuing delay in implementing the agreement has only further weakened Palestinian confidence in Arafat. Popular support for the Declaration of Principles ran at 65% in the territories just...
...cycle is horribly familiar. Israeli undercover agents in the Gaza Strip spring a trap on three members of the Fatah Hawks, an armed wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization, killing Ahmed Abu Rish, 23. That ignites hair-trigger tempers in the occupied territories, and the rutted alleys of Gaza erupt into running battles between rock-throwing youths and Israeli forces. In one 24-hour period, soldiers kill a teenager and wound 65 Palestinians...
...security in the two areas. The first 22 Palestinian policemen crossed the border from Egypt to the Gaza Strip last month, and training of a 2,500-man contingent is under way in Jordan and Egypt. As many as 8,000 from the territories, including members of the Fatah Hawks, will make up the backbone of the force, which will be equipped with small arms and armored personnel carriers. The other 7,000 would come from the ranks of P.L.O. guerrillas now camped in several Middle Eastern countries. For the past two weeks, two senior P.L.O. officers have been...