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...Janjaweed militia have killed as many as 50,000 black Sudanese. Khartoum, which denies it is backing the Janjaweed, says the U.N. resolution is "unfair" but it will comply with the demand to disarm the fighters. Moving Again MIDDLE EAST Israel reopened a border crossing between Egypt and Gaza after having stranded thousands of Palestinians in the desert for three weeks. The Israelis closed the crossing on July 18 because of intelligence indicating that one of the Palestinian militant groups in Rafah intended to tunnel beneath it. About 20 tunnels, used to smuggle weapons between Rafah and Egypt, have been...
After months of bitter complaining in conference rooms over thick coffee and cigarettes, Yasser Arafat's critics within his own Fatah Party burst into the open last week. As riots rocked Gaza, parliamentarians threatened a hunger strike unless Arafat agreed to reform his corrupt administration and hand over control of the military to a new Prime Minister to replace Ahmed Qurei, who wants to resign. But so far Arafat has remained defiant, refusing to accept Qurei's resignation, accusing opponents of a conspiracy to shove him aside and denying that he will give up any power. "I'm not going...
After four years of violence that shows no signs of ending, opposition to Arafat is spreading to the street. A leading Arafat critic, former Minister Nabil Amr, was shot in the leg by a gunman last week; reformers took it as at least a warning from Arafat loyalists. In Gaza, Arafat's Fatah faction issued a stream of leaflets accusing his henchmen of corruption and violence. Most of the vitriol was aimed at Arafat's cousin Moussa, whom he named this month to head the National Security Forces. The leaflets also accused Arafat of siphoning off public money...
...behind the Fatah protests in Gaza is Mohammed Dahlan, the former head of Arafat's Preventive Security Service there. He is taking advantage of a long-simmering perception among Fatah chiefs that Arafat has no intention of getting the Palestinians out of their present diplomatic dead end, even as the prospects for a Palestinian state seem ever more distant. "We warned Arafat two years ago to clean his house," says a senior Fatah official. The official says Arafat is in no immediate danger of being ousted, but the escalating campaign against him could be laying the foundation for someone...
...Gaza, AK-47s and M-16s are essential elements of this year’s summer fashion collection—along with khaki pants, dark shirts and masks. The men wearing them are constantly marching. Marching is what they do best. They are what remained of this year’s harvest. Plenty of bad crops this year, and very few seeds—almost none. There is infinite despair in the Palestinian territories. Add to that cynicism and disappointment, a few targeted assassinations, a segregation wall, a corrupt leadership, no work, militants demanding pay for your protection, and, finally...