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...Charging Barghouti in the public glare of a civilian court rather than in the shadowy secrecy of a military tribunal (more typically granted Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza) is a calculated political risk for Israel. The authorities aim to produce evidence - including testimony from, among others, two imprisoned Barghouti deputies who have apparently agreed to speak against their boss - portraying Barghouti as the operational godfather of the Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade, a Fatah offshoot responsible for scores of suicide terror attacks that have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Israeli officials hope such a charge will convince...
...liberal Israeli bench over the extent and nature of Israel's legal authority in recently reoccupied territories. On the same day as Barghouti's appearance, Israeli Supreme Court judge Dalia Dorner stopped the Israeli military from deporting three relatives of a Palestinian suicide terrorist from the West Bank to Gaza. She ordered a 15-day reprieve, during which she wants to hear a detailed discussion on the legal issues involved - including the legal status of Israeli authority in the territories from which the Palestinians were to have been expelled...
...terms more favorable to the U.S. and Israel. And that's precisely the fear on the streets and in the corridors of power of the Arab capitals. Not that Rumsfeld is particularly concerned. On Tuesday, he went on the record disputing the characterization of the West Bank and Gaza as "occupied" by Israel, declining to criticize Israeli settlement activity there and trashing the notion of talking to the Palestinian Authority even as Bush administration officials prepared to do just that. Those positions may put him way out of step with the Bush administration's official Middle East policy, but they...
...plan raises divisions aplenty on the Palestinian side, too. Those under curfew in the West Bank cities will see little to cheer in a "Gaza-first" cease-fire, and even Arafat's own cabinet was divided over whether to accept Ben Eliezer's offer. Gaza is a stronghold of Hamas, whose political standing continues to grow at the expense of Arafat's own Fatah movement. The PA's approach to implementing a cease-fire there may depend, in large part, on securing Hamas's agreement to such a step, on the basis that both sides would prefer to avoid...
...conflict. And despite's Sharon's reported endorsement of the proposal, Ben-Eliezer himself speaks only for a faction of the Israeli government. Then there's the PA, internally divided over the plan even as its political authority on the Palestinian Street continues to diminish. To call the Gaza-first plan a long-shot is no understatement. But its advocates will likely counter that for now, it may be the only game in town...