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...planned by two Boston activist groups, the demonstration was originally set to protest Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem...
Under siege from both sides of his government and desperate to prop up Israelis' sagging morale, Ariel Sharon is mixing his messages. In response to two painful Palestinian hits on Israeli military targets in the West Bank and Gaza, Sharon's army pounded Palestinian targets for two days last week and fired a missile directly into the Ramallah compound where Yasser Arafat remains under virtual house arrest. And in a speech to the nation on Thursday he vowed to build "buffer zones to achieve security separation" between Israelis and Palestinians. But a day later he ordered his army to avoid...
...have settled there since the territory was captured in 1967. Also, the Palestinians lack the ready access to sophisticated weaponry Hezbollah enjoyed throughout its 18-year campaign. But the Israeli Defense Force was a lot less vulnerable in Lebanon than it may soon be in the West Bank and Gaza, where its forces are dispersed to defend some 145 settlements and to encircle scores of Palestinian population centers. Such vulnerability only increases when the IDF is sent inside those population centers in pursuit of Palestinian suspects...
...Arafat may be hoping that an upsurge of violence confined to the West Bank and Gaza will deepen Sharon's crisis, and force the Bush administration to resume its stalled mediation efforts - particularly in light of the Iraq factor. The Saudis and other pro-Western Arab leaders have warned the U.S. against initiating action against Iraq while the West Bank and Gaza are ablaze. And that creates an incentive for Washington to press for Israeli restraint in the interests of mustering maximum support against Saddam...
...latest attacks also appear calculated to maximize political divisions inside Israel: Instead of dispatching suicide bombers on terror missions in the heart of Israel's cities, the attacks of the past week have focused on the symbols of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - soldiers and settlers outside of Israel's pre-1967 borders. And that may be a conscious strategy to avoid driving the Israelis to circle the wagons around Sharon. Israel's deteriorating security and economic situation has sent the prime minister's approval ratings plummeting to 48 percent from a high of around...