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...Prime Minister should stand trial for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate tycoon. That ruling opened the way for Sharon to expand his minority coalition to include, at least potentially, the dovish Labor Party. Sharon wants Labor onboard to help push his plan for a withdrawal from Gaza; Arafat believes Labor in the government would ease pressure from the U.S. and Egypt to reform...
...Palestinian Authority's security forces. Sharon needed the break, having seen his right-wing government dissolve after he lost a vote among his Likud Party members in May over the withdrawal plan. With most Labor chiefs in favor of the Gaza withdrawal, party activists said they will likely join the government. Arafat has been stalling on reform. In a Cabinet meeting last week, he threw out one of his top security aides, Jibril Rajoub, who urged him to revamp the security forces. "Get out of here," Arafat yelled at Rajoub. If Labor does take its place in Sharon's government...
NOTEBOOK: Gaza heats up; missing information on Abu Ghraib abuse; Bush blows a G.O.P. pep talk...
Israel's campaign against Palestinian militants took a particularly tragic turn last week. Israeli troops have lately been engaged in an intense hunt for the tunnels Palestinians use to smuggle weapons into Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip. During one such operation, Israeli commanders ordered a tank to fire warning shots over the heads of a crowd of Palestinian protesters--fearing they would cut off a clutch of Israeli infantrymen--and wound up killing seven people. The deaths provoked international outrage. Even the U.S., Israel's staunchest ally, withheld its veto and permitted the U.N. Security Council...
Such measures continue to draw international fire. But militants in Rafah tell TIME that the Lebanese militia Hizballah has indeed used the tunnels to smuggle weaponry and explosives to Palestinian militants in Gaza. They say the materiel comes via African countries where Hizballah has a network among Lebanese emigres. Israeli intelligence officers confirm that Sudan is a major source, but say most of the guns and bombs still originate in Lebanon. They believe Palestinian groups are trying to acquire deadlier plastic explosives, and fear that the tunnels could also be used to import Katyusha missiles into Gaza. In the face...