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...forceful help from the international community, and yet the parameters of a settlement is an issue on which President Bush remained curiously silent. The administration has adopted its stance from Sharon himself - Israel is not required to make any movement towards ending its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and curbing settlement activity before the intifada ends. It's a significant break with U.S. policy that until now has held that Israeli settlements in territories captured in 1967 are unacceptable, regardless of the state of the peace process...
...questionable - or at least conditional upon what Israel offers by way of a political solution. There is certainly a strong reform movement in Palestinian society that seeks to be rid of the corrupt and inept administration of Yasser Arafat. But its strongest element has been the West Bank and Gaza militants who waged the first intifada from 1987 to 1991; were sidelined as Arafat and his coterie of Tunis-based exiles took over following the Oslo agreements; and then launched the second intifada when Oslo hit a wall at Camp David...
...Some of those activists today advocate a farewell to arms, arguing that terrorism has done little to advance the Palestinian goal of ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Others see armed struggle as the best way to pursue that goal - and they find themselves fighting alongside the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who seek not only a return to the 1967 borders but the elimination of the State of Israel. Still, there is no Palestinian leader of any inclination willing to accept anything less than a settlement based on the 1967 borders (or a modified...
...Palestinian group Hamas killed 15 people and injured 40 when he blew himself up on a bus in the port city of Haifa, the first such attack in two months. Shortly afterward, 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded in a raid by Israeli troops on the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya. Israeli officials denied accusations by the Palestinian Authority that the raid had been a revenge attack. In further violence, Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis in a West Bank settlement, and a Hamas leader died in an assault by Israeli attack helicopters. Meanwhile, under Israeli Prime Minister...
...first meeting with a senior Palestinian official in more than a year. In the West Bank, two Palestinian militants were shot dead after they ambushed and killed two Israeli soldiers. Meanwhile, Palestinians reported that an Israeli helicopter opened fire with machine guns, killing two medical workers in Gaza. But the Israeli military said it was unaware of any casualties...