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...suicide bombing in Jerusalem Wednesday that wounded six Israelis simply underscored the familiarity of the pattern of violence now being accelerated. President Bush again insisted that Yasser Arafat "rout out those who killed," but the fragility of the Palestinian leader's grip on power was demonstrated in Gaza City where Hamas gunmen, supported by thousands of demonstrators, forced Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces to retreat from the home of the movement's leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, whom Arafat had ordered placed under house arrest...
...Israel suspended military action against the PA on Wednesday to give Arafat 12 hours to arrest a list of 36 terror-accused supplied by Israel. That follows Tuesday's withering barrage against targets associated with Arafat, which destroyed his helicopters in Gaza and a building adjacent to his Ramallah office. But despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic...
...authorities said the group had been warned three times before their arrest and would still face serious charges. ISRAEL More Sorrow As U.S. mediators prepared to lead new peace talks, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teen at a funeral for five boys killed in an explosion outside a Gaza refugee camp. Palestinian officials blamed that blast on a booby trap placed to protect a nearby Jewish settlement. A missile strike also killed Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a Hamas leader accused by Israel of helping to plan suicide attacks. Hamas promised revenge, with one leader saying that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel...
...question of attributing responsibility does not change the bottom line. After seven years of peace making, Tel Aviv and Gaza might as well have been on different planets. Residents of the former are better fed, dressed and paid than ever before. Inhabitants of the latter remained crowded, uneducated and impoverished. It is this chasm that has sustained and fueled the recent uprising. It is this gorge that makes it almost impossible...
...second, more controversial film was made by a young filmmaker who had won an Academy Award for a film on orphans in Russia. I was told that he had a film on the children in Gaza which was to be shown on PBS. We could see it before that airing. This again seemed interesting in order to bring an important social and political problem to the attention of our students. Gaza is a dangerous place. It is critical in the peace process. The film was grim. Indeed, it reflected the miserable situation in Gaza which is worsening...