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...continued uprising in the West Bank and Gaza provides ample proof of why Israel has not been able to lift road closures and checkpoints. The very same day that the Israeli army eased closures in the Gaza Strip as arranged by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, two Hamas terrorists infiltrated a Jewish settlement and killed two Israeli teenagers. In exchange for the lifting of roadblocks, Arafat was supposed to clamp down on Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Israeli intelligence claims that Arafat had prior knowledge of the Hamas attack but did nothing to prevent...
...term. A terrorist is anyone who uses violence to target civilians. If freedom fighters target civilians then they are terrorists. Social action groups that also engage in acts of violence against civilians are terrorists as well. Hamas, for example, has offered many humanitarian services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nonetheless, it is responsible for dozens of suicide bombings, which makes it a terrorist group despite its large social action component...
...regime. The general has also moved preemptively, placing a number of key Islamist leaders under house arrests and purging Taliban sympathizers from the military's top brass; Yasser Arafat's police found themselves playing a role usually reserved for their Israeli counterparts, putting down an anti-American demonstration in Gaza and killing three Palestinians. Arafat appears to have gambled that the diplomatic gains from ingratiating himself with the U.S. outweigh the danger posed by Palestinian anger - and, perhaps, that he can rely on Israel to provide sufficient incentive to prevent a Palestinian civil war; Anti-American protests in Indonesia...
...People are very angry at the PA. Today in Gaza, they are chanting anti-PA slogans in refugee camps. The man in the street is very angry because three Palestinians were killed and 55 injured for saying no to America. And many Palestinians believe they have a right to express this point of view...
...Israelis are still in PA-controlled territory in Hebron and in northern Gaza, and gun battles continue. That alone may be enough to keep the different Palestinian factions from letting their differences go too far. In the end, they are more likely to remain united for their immediate struggle against the Israelis - even though those ongoing battles sometimes embarrass Arafat also...