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...unforeseen factor may exacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: migration out of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Jordanian officials reckon at least 100,000 Palestinians have left the West Bank to work illegally in their country since the intifadeh began. (Israeli sources put the number at about 50,000.) An additional 40,000 Palestinians have fled for the U.S., South America and Egypt. In a population of 3 million under Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, that's a sizable flight, with sizable consequences. Those who leave tend to worry more about making a living than about politics...
Middle East history is shaped less by the particulars of each event than by each side's perception of it. And on that basis, the region has good reason to be bracing for a dramatic upsurge in violence. Israeli helicopter gunships blasted Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza Monday, hours after six Palestinian activists in a refugee camp near Jenin were killed in an explosion. Palestinian officials claim the shack in which the militants were meeting was hit by tank shells; Western journalists report that the explosion appeared to have occurred inside the shack, and the Israelis claim the Palestinians were...
...latest exchanges come on top of two attempted bombings in Jerusalem and a mortar attack on Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom in Gaza. But in the realm of perceptions, no event in recent months carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque compound atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab...
...Matt Rees: It?s fairly clear that he doesn?t want the suicide bombers to go into Israel. It?s also clear that he doesn?t particularly want to do anything to stop the attacks on settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza...
...think what is needed is an understanding of the nature of the conflict. If you want Arafat to control the situation, you have to give him something political - for example, lifting the closure, giving freedom of movement, helping him with the unemployment in the West Bank and Gaza. They are facing huge economic problems - I can say after what I have seen in Gaza is that there is starvation there...