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Maybe he will. But Fatah leaders say the Palestinian chief has no plans to punish anyone who attacks soldiers and settlers in the Palestinian territories--the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It's an unpleasant distinction, but as the Fatah leaders see it, suicide bombings within Israel look like damnable terrorism to the outside world, while West Bank shootings cast the Palestinians as guerrillas waging a war against a foreign occupation. "Fatah is free to fight settlers and the army at any place in the West Bank but not inside the Green Line," says a senior Fatah official, referring...
...feet of where the Palestinian leader was sitting with Miguel Moratinos, the European Union's Middle East envoy. Army officers say they are not trying to kill Arafat--just to scare him into curbing the uprising. For good measure, the Israelis also bombarded a building in Arafat's Gaza City compound...
...Israelis also continued their policy of targeting Palestinian security forces and activists they link to the violence. Last week in the Gaza Strip, the Israelis killed a Palestinian general, the highest-ranking Palestinian Authority victim of an Israeli gun in this conflict. But the hits sometimes go wrong. Israeli soldiers tried to kill Hussein Abu Kweik, a Hamas activist in Ramallah. But when they shot up his car, Abu Kweik wasn't in it; his wife was. She died, along with her three children. Like Arafat, Sharon is unable to control all his people. Last Tuesday seven children...
...where Jamil has lived since his father rented the old stone house in 1949, were destroyed. By then, our Israeli military correspondent, Aharon Klein, had bad news of his own. A close relative of his wife's had been killed in a raid on an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip overnight. The 18-year-old cousin was a regular dinner guest at Aharon's home...
...Israel's streets. But the bigger question concerns the fate of the Fatah militias broadly loyal to Arafat that have reclaimed the dominant role in the "armed struggle" from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. These militias believe guerrilla warfare will end Israel's occupation of the West Band and Gaza. Arafat may well believe their effectiveness has helped restore his political fortunes by creating a crisis that forced the Americans and Sharon to reengage with him, and be reluctant to part with a strategic asset...