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...intifadeh much more effective. Named for a military division of Hamas, the weapon has a range of 3 miles, far longer than Hamas' garage-built mortar shells. Palestinian security chiefs tell TIME that Hizballah operatives bought or stole a rocket from Syrian soldiers in Lebanon and smuggled it to Gaza, where a Hamas "engineering unit" made two duplicates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocket Science | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Israel says it has arrested two groups of suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Gaza and the West Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwide Web | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...form of political action. But they tend to see many of the groups who practice terrorism as using illegitimate means to pursue goals they consider legitimate, such as ejecting Israel from southern Lebanon (in the case of Hezbollah) or resisting Israel's occuption of the West Bank and Gaza. That conundrum inevitably creates ambiguity in their response to U.S. demands: Lebanon last week refused Washington's entreaties to freeze Hezbollah's assets. Indeed, the U.S. would be hard-pressed to find Arab governments willing to use the word "terrorist" for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, because many Arab leaders see these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mideast Conflict Haunts Bush's U.N. Address | 11/10/2001 | See Source »

When Palestinian radicals assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister outside his East Jerusalem hotel room last week, they brought the rage of the West Bank and Gaza to a city whose Palestinian neighborhoods have escaped the worst ravages of the year-long Aqsa intifadeh. The tough Israeli response to the murder pushed Palestinian leaders into further bloodthirsty statements that can only perpetuate the cycle of violence. Sari Nusseibeh is one of the few leading Palestinians still prepared to buck the growing extremism and to urge a rejection of the hatred and vengeance that have engulfed the region this past year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinian with a Plan | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...invaded within the last year—will only exacerbate the situation. The PFLP, Hamas or another terrorist organization will likely retaliate for the invasions and the 38 Palestinians who died during them. As the staff says, Palestinian opinion is so anti-Israel (a higher percentage of people in Gaza support attacks on Israel than support the peace process) that it is nearly impossible for Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to try to bring terrorists to justice...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fighting Terror In Israel | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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