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Three Palestinian judges on Monday proved the independence of the Palestinian judiciary - and in the process deepened the political crisis facing Yasser Arafat. But the Gaza high court ruling ordering the release of radical Palestinian leader Ahmed Saadat also posed some uncomfortable questions about the Bush administration's efforts to reform the Palestinian Authority, and its broader strategy. Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has been in a Palestinian prison in Jericho since April. He was imprisoned under U.S. and British supervision as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement to end Israel's siege...
...residents of the West Bank, Arafat's new freedom of movement contrasts with the Israeli chokehold on their own daily lives, and ability to earn a living - and the blockade on many of those towns is tighter than ever. Half of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza now lives below the poverty line, and even middle class residents of established West Bank towns are reduced to begging neighbors for assistance. Few observers of Palestinian politics are surprised that Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades are having no trouble recruiting suicide bombers, because there's nothing...
...Omen Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been banned from accepting pizza deliveries they did not order themselves because the boxes might contain bombs...
...Zubaydah, whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Mohammed Husayn, grew up comfortably middle-class. In his teens he became interested in Islamic extremism, drawn there by the Palestinian cause, and by age 18 he was in Gaza as a member of Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s he moved to Afghanistan, and soon Osama bin Laden placed him in the border town of Peshawar, Pakistan. There, Zubaydah acted as a kind of semi-permeable membrane, passing on to al-Qaeda volunteers he deemed acceptable. As a cover, he posed as a honey merchant but nonetheless attracted notice from...
...call Kashmir the subcontinent's West Bank or Gaza Strip would be a stretch. The Kashmir Valley, the heart and soul of the territory, is one of the earth's lovelier places. Many Kashmiris are poor, but no one lives in 50-year-old refugee settlements. Unlike the Palestinians, they have a homeland...