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...days before, Haitham had left his home in Sheik Radwan, a neighborhood of Gaza City in which the Islamist militants of Hamas reign, and walked with his friends along the beach. When they reached the edge of the city, near the three Israeli settlements at the north of the Gaza Strip, Haitham produced a knife and a small pipe bomb from his pockets. "I invite you to join me in martyrdom," he told his companions. His friends declined and watched him continue. He was shot by an Israeli soldier guarding the settlement of Dugit. It is a testament...
...reruns of news footage that captured the death of Mohammed al-Durra, 12, even as his father used his own body to try to shield the boy from a barrage of bullets. "In their games, children identify with the martyr," says Dr. Eyyad Sarraj, a psychiatrist who heads the Gaza Community Mental Health Program. Psychologically, he says, "they have left their fathers for the martyrs." A cult of death has appropriated a Palestinian generation, but a deep fear underlies it. Today, according to Sarraj, 35% of Palestinian children under the age of 15 wet their beds, up from 7% before...
...while the Israelis hope to use the trial to mark the PA as a duplicitous terror infrastructure that systematically betrayed its security undertakings to Israel, Barghouti will portray Israel as a colonial master claiming authority over 3.5 million West Bank and Gaza Palestinians. Exhibit A: his own trial by a state in which he lacks the democratic rights of a citizen...
...whatever its outcome, the trial may work to Barghouti's political advantage. Even if the Israeli court and public opinion are unimpressed by his distinction between attacks inside Israel and those on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza, even a life sentence will only enhance Barghouti's stature among Palestinians. He continues to play a key role in Palestinian political life, and his approval is considered central to current efforts by PA leaders to secure a unilateral cease-fire among militants from Fatah and Hamas. He has also signaled his intention to campaign, from prison, if need...
...from his willingness to challenge the PA's corruption and cronyism, and to forcefully stand up to both the Israelis and the Americans. Barghouti maintains he shares the goal of the U.S. and most Israelis of resolving the conflict by creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. But unlike them - although more in keeping with the sentiments on the Palestinian street - he sees "armed struggle," at least in the West Bank and Gaza, as a valid and effective means of pursuing that goal. Imprisoning Barghouti may be the equivalent of a political favor, because incarceration would keep...