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...jailed by the Israelis several times, and that earned him tremendous respect among Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He was not a leader who fought the battle from Tunis (headquarters of Yasser Arafat and the PLO until the Oslo Accord allowed them to return to Ramallah and Gaza). He remained behind and expressed his national feeling on the ground, and went to jail for it. And one of the more important things about his legacy, also, was that his name was never mentioned in connection with the corruption that has been so widespread in the Palestinian Authority...
Left to their own devices, Israelis and Palestinians appear to be unable to end the violence that continues to rage in the West Bank and Gaza. Which means that as long as the U.S. resists playing the thankless - and ill-starred - role of referee, there are slim grounds for optimism over the prospects for a cease-fire, let alone a peace agreement...
...security cooperation under U.S. auspices, but few observers saw much sign that the meetings will have any impact on the situation on the ground. Indeed, two of the most senior Palestinian officials invited - Jibril Rajoub and Mohammed Dahlan, who run Palestinian security structures in the West Bank and Gaza respectively - have conspicuously refused to attend, citing incidents in which they came under fire as evidence that the Israelis had targeted them for elimination. But their absence was also calculated to send the political message that many of Arafat's lieutenants believe security talks can only be held within a broader...
...Sharon, too, is under mounting domestic pressure from his traditional hard-line constituency. The Israeli settlers, whose cause he has long championed and who have always opposed a peace process that put the future of their very presence in the West Bank and Gaza on the negotiating table, are demanding that Sharon respond more forcefully to continuing Palestinian attacks. And with settlers dying almost daily as Palestinian militants pursue a strategy of trying to force them out of the West Bank and Gaza by making their lives there unbearable, Sharon has signaled that he may be about...
...Today, Israeli leaders remain divided - and not along partisan lines, either - over whether leaving Lebanon to save Israeli lives helped put Israel into its current predicament in the West Bank and Gaza. But for the Palestinian militants, there is no debate. The Hizballah strategy is being pursued by a range of Palestinian militant groups, ranging from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to elements of Arafat's own Fatah organization and even cells created by Hizballah itself, who see firing on Israeli soldiers and settlers with assault rifles and mortars, setting off remote-controlled roadside bombs and sending suicide bombers into Israel...