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...only dominates al-Qaeda's propaganda; it also dominates the diplomatic agenda of America's moderate Arab allies. The reason is simply that both sides recognize the emotional power of the Israeli-Palestinian issue to rally the Arab street. Mounting anger over violence in the West Bank and Gaza has created a domestic political crisis for Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, because of their governments' alliances with Israel's key sponsor, the U.S. That's a domestic crisis al-Qaeda will be looking to exploit in its efforts to find the men and money to grow its networks...
...what the Israelis call ha-Masterim (the Masters). In Defensive Shield, Israeli forces picked up or killed all the Hamas men they knew of in the West Bank who had mastered the precise formulas for homemade explosives. But according to Israeli intelligence, a few top Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip slipped through Israeli security to the West Bank and have begun to produce explosives there, reinvigorating the West Bank wing of the group that had been on the ropes during and just after Defensive Shield...
...efforts to rekindle some form of peace process, Ariel Sharon appears determined to rid himself of Yasser Arafat and cement his own hold over the West Bank. The Israeli prime minister told the New York Times that he may consider letting Arafat leave his Ramallah office and go to Gaza, saying "with Arafat, no one will be able to make peace." But right now Arafat isn?t looking for a new address, and Palestinian leaders scoffed at the suggestion - after all, Sharon himself is as much a prisoner of the current standoff in Ramallah as Arafat is. And Sharon...
...restraining suicide bombers from crossing Israel's 1967 borders. An Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade commander told the New York times two days ago that his group would refrain from sending bombers into Israel proper, focusing their attacks only on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And the Palestinian Authority appears to have extracted a similar promise from Hamas in order to avoid a Palestinian civil war - because the PA's very existence would be on the line if there were further attacks in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Palestinian leaders believe attacks on soldiers and settlers outside...
...lesson drawn is that Sharon should get on with booting out Arafat, and Bush will fall into line. From the other end of the spectrum, Haaretz warns the Bush administration that Sharon's repeated vows in recent days to maintain every Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza "cast a dark shadow" over President Bush's claim that the Israeli prime minister is a "man of peace." In the mean time, they warn, he may be about to launch a new offensive in Gaza...