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...also been a suspect in terrorist attacks both inside Lebanon and abroad. But unlike Bin Laden's group - and the equally cosmopolitan Abu Nidal - Hezbollah tends to remain focus on home ground, and on lending its support and expertise to Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza...
...most notorious Palestinian terrorist group of the past decade has been Hamas, which has killed scores of Israeli civilians in suicide bombing attacks inside Israel. Based in the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas opposes Yasser Arafat and the peace process, but it is not known to have mounted attacks outside of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Thus far, Israeli security officials believe that despite their animosity to the Jewish State, Osama Bin Laden's forces have not for the most part directly targeted Israel...
Expect nothing to come of the latest proposed Israeli-Palestinian talks, and you're unlikely to be disappointed. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres are scheduled to meet sometime this week, probably at the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza. And that prompted Palestinian militants at the weekend to repeat a familiar pattern of launching a frenzy of attacks as a form of "veto" over any new moves towards a cease-fire. Five Israelis were killed and 80 wounded in two separate suicide bombings and a drive-by shooting on Saturday, and Israel responded Sunday...
...Fatah organization without a political prize to offer Palestinians as reward. After all, the majority of Palestinians polled in various surveys support violence against Israel and oppose cease-fire agreements, and a year of clashes has substantially weakened Arafat's political control in the West Bank and Gaza. Thus Arafat's insistence that to meet with Peres they need an Israeli commitment to implement the Mitchell proposals, to lift the closure of Palestinian territories and to reopen Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. And he's unlikely to get those commitments from Peres and Sharon...
...internationally-choreographed quid-pro-quo that began with Oslo. Without a peace process to speak of, Arafat will be relegated to an increasingly symbolic role as the center of gravity in Palestinian politics shifts towards those who believe Israel can be driven out of the West Bank and Gaza through protracted guerrilla warfare. And those militants are likely to do their best to "veto" any progress by intensifying their attacks in the coming days and weeks...