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...Jerusalem is almost never as chummy as the two governments make it out to be, they try not to point fingers and quarrel in public. But this time the diplomatic niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about the 415 Palestinians Israel declared to be fundamentalist leaders and deported to Lebanon. Washington has leaned hard on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to take all or some of them back. Israel responded by implying that the U.S. was complicit in Hamas' terrorism...
...Careful What You Wish For SENIOR OFFICIALS OF FATAH, YASSER ARAFAT'S P.L.O. faction, are telling of a plot that backfired on them. They say Fatah, not HAMAS, the Palestinian fundamentalist group, was responsible for the murder of an Israeli border policeman last month, which triggered the controversial expulsion from Israel of 415 alleged Hamas members. Fatah wanted to cause problems for its rivals in Hamas, which opposes the Middle East peace talks. Instead, the overreaction by the Israelis has aroused strong popular support for Hamas. P.L.O. representatives at the peace talks are refusing to continue...
...were never tried in a court of law. Israel claims that all of the men deported were members of Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist Palestinian organization that opposes negotiation with Israel. However, Israel has offered absolutely no proof of these allegations. In addition, Israel never released a complete list of the deportees' names, nor did it inform their families. May of the deportees were in prison before their deportation, and several of their families do not know what has become of them...
...recognized Israel, abandoned armed struggle in the fight for Palestinian self-determination, and adopted a political approach. Its members have participated in peace talks with Israel. Hamas, on the other hand, draws those Palestinians who are fundamentalist Muslims, as well as those who oppose the negotiations. Only as Hamas became a force popular and strong enough to challenge the Israeli occupation did Israel change its policy of leniency towards the groups...
...aware of that eventuality. Says a senior military official: "We can keep a lid on the territories by applying pressure, but they will boil over again once we lift the lid. The solution is to deal with the fire underneath, through political means." Given the ferocity of the fundamentalist challenge, it is a fire best extinguished quickly, before it spreads further...