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When Palestinian Authority (PA) police fired on anti-American protesters in the Gaza strip on Oct. 9, Chairman Yassir Arafat permanently cast his lot against Osama bin Laden—and therefore with the U.S.—in the current conflict. We are deeply concerned by the use of deadly force to quell the protests and deplore the PA’s attempt to suppress news reports of the events. But we hope that its opposition to the horrific Sept. 11 attack on innocent civilians will convince the PA that it must combat terrorism, in all its forms...
...Truce Crumbles In a week that saw the softening of U.S. pronouncements on the Middle East, both Israel and militant Palestinians trashed a week-long cease-fire, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon engaged in a war of words with Washington. Israeli troops launched deadly raids on Hebron and the Gaza Strip in reprisal for two attacks that killed five Israelis. Sharon infuriated Washington with an accusation that the U.S. was seeking to appease Arab states to gain support for its international coalition. President Bush earlier appeared to endorse the notion of an independent Palestinian state. building international pressure, Taliban leader...
Gush Shalom, the Israeli peace group Avnery helped to establish in 1992, calls for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the closure of Israeli settlements, the release of all Palestinian prisoners and the declaration of Jerusalem as a joint capital of the two states...
...Powell's purported vision signals a recognition by the Bush administration that the Palestinians have no incentive to maintain a cease-fire unless its purpose is a resumption of political negotiations on ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and establishing Palestinian statehood...
...Arafat has plenty of difficulties of his own. Last Monday his police sparked a furious reaction across the West Bank and Gaza when they shot dead three anti-American demonstrators. Many local leaders of his own Fatah movement on Friday joined the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad for peaceful marches protesting the U.S. air raids on Afghanistan, and there is little enthusiasm on the Palestinian streets for renewed dialogue with the Israelis...