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Israel's secret war inside the West Bank is no less deadly--but a good deal less visible--than its fight in Gaza. In the West Bank, Israel relies on a network of Palestinian collaborators and wide-scale arrests. Last year more than 6,650 suspected Palestinian militants were rounded up, among them, claim Israeli intelligence officers, 279 potential suicide bombers. (IDF troops perform another function in the West Bank. In effect, they prop up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Without the presence of Israeli troops, his advisers concede, the West Bank would soon fall to Hamas militants, just as Gaza...
...Israel--and especially for those who live in settlements speckled throughout the West Bank--the looming danger is from militants who want to emulate their comrades in Gaza and launch rocket attacks. The IDF says it has uncovered clandestine explosives factories, which are said to prove that Hamas and other militant groups, such as Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, are trying to learn rocket technology...
...Rallying the electorate against foreign enemies has been an important part of the conservatives' campaigning over the past week, citing the row over the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Europe, the third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran, and the conflict in Gaza. In a speech, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said all those who supported an election boycott - as some reformists whose candidates were barred from running had at first considered to - were "either fooled or supported by foreign interests...
...another program, Ahmadinejad asked rhetorically why the U.N. was doing nothing about the killings of "women and children in Gaza," but wasting its time on sanctions against Iran. Coverage of Ahmadinejad moving openly around Baghdad and being feted by the Iraqi government was contrasted with images of President George W. Bush's secret visits to Iraq to suggest that Iran is eclipsing the U.S. in the region. Voting in the election is proclaimed as an Islamic duty, and as "a fist to the mouth of the enemy...
...there praised the attack but backtracked on earlier claims of responsibility for sending Abu Dhaim on his suicide mission. If it turns out that Hamas was indeed responsible, it would mark the start of a new campaign of terror inside Israel, a likely response to Israel's hammering of Gaza last week, in which 110 Palestinians, half of them civilians, were killed. After Hamas won the January 2006 general elections in the Palestinian territories, it halted suicide bombings, though other Palestinian groups persisted. Many suicide bombers tried to slip into Israel, and most were caught, lulling many Israelis...