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...from frozen funds of Cuba and Iran. Relatives of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots shot down by the Cuban air force in 1996 won $97 million, and the family of Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old New Jersey student killed in 1995 in a Hizballah attack in the Gaza Strip, got $22 million...
...Arafat has begun arresting members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was responsible for the assassination earlier this week of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi. Will this provoke a showdown between Arafat and the PFLP and other radical elements in the West Bank and Gaza...
...attacks on Arafat will come from the PFLP organization in Damascus rather than in the West Bank or Gaza. Arafat decided to arrest at least eight of them. The Popular Front, for him, is a lightweight boxer that he can easily knock down. But he would suffer from the campaign they would launch against him from Damascus, which started yesterday with accusations that the arrests are aimed to serve only the interests of the Americans and Israelis...
...This is the second clash in as many weeks between Arafat and militant Palestinian organizations. Two weeks ago his police killed three Islamist protestors in Gaza at a demonstration against the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan. Now they're rounding up PFLP members. But these are many of the same people alongside whom Arafat's security forces have fought over the past year. How is this affecting the cohesion of his administration...
...Arafat is losing. The intifada didn't achieve anything politically or militarily. He used to claim that intifada achieved Palestinian national unity. But the national unity after what happened in Gaza and what happened this week has been lost. Arafat can't survive without national unity. If Arafat has to make a choice, he'll take national unity over meeting Israel's demands...