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...which could derail his peace talks with the Israelis. In his statement, Abbas coupled his condemnation of the Dimona attack with harsh criticism of an Israeli army raid in the West Bank. It was not lost on the Israelis that the al-Aqsa Brigades belong to Abbas's own Fatah movement, but it has spun out of the President's control...
...December, Osama bin Laden described the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon as "Crusaders" sent to Lebanon "to protect the Jews" of Israel. On January 7, another taped message was aired on a jihadist website purportedly from Shaker al-Absi, the fugitive leader of the al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam group, which waged a bloody three month battle against the Lebanese army last summer. In the 58-minute message, Absi threatened attacks against the Lebanese army. "The mill of war has started to grind ... between the infidels and the believers," he said...
...formula for keeping the Gaza-Egypt border permanently open. Haniyeh said Hamas was prepared to set up joint control of the border with the President's forces, bringing an end to a hostilities between the two factions that erupted last July when Hamas militants chased the President's Fatah militia out of Gaza...
...plight of Gaza forced President Mahmoud Abbas to threaten to withdraw from U.S.-sponsored peace talks with Israel. Abbas later said he'd stick it out, although Palestinian officials in Ramallah tell TIME that the Palestinian President is becoming increasingly isolated among his people, and even inside his own Fatah movement. Says Salah Bardoweel, a Hamas legislator, "This new round of attacks by Israel creates a belief that there is a security coordination between Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Washington against Gaza...
...West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The efforts of many U.S. presidents and several supposed breakthroughs have proved fruitless. This millennium, the prospects for peace have seemed unusually bleak: More than a thousand Israelis have been killed as a direct result of the terrorist tactics employed by Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian groups since 2000, while Israeli counterattacks and military operations have killed more than 4,000 Palestinians...