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...want to understand the complexity of the battles being fought in the Gaza Strip, take a look at Adnan al-Ghoul's resume. An activist in the first intifadeh, al-Ghoul was deported by Israel to Lebanon in 1992. There he hooked up with Hezbollah. Al-Ghoul sneaked back into Gaza City in 1996 with forged documents, but he still maintains close ties with Hezbollah - especially since he runs a major bomb factory in Gaza City, according to Palestinian intelligence officials. Al-Ghoul sells hand grenades for $50 and belts packed with TNT for use in suicide bombs...
...will Palestinians read Tuesday's intervention by Secretary of State Colin Powell that appears to have prompted Israel to withdraw after reoccupying a piece of Gaza in the wake of a mortar attack on Israel...
...that the Americans could not ignore - occupying another country is crossing a certain boundary. When Saddam Hussein entered Kuwait, that led most of the Arab states to support the U.S. in the Gulf War. So the Americans could not keep silent in the face of what had happened in Gaza, even if they believed Israel had been provoked by the mortar attacks...
TIME.com: Why did Secretary of State Colin Powell come out and publicly criticize Israel's reoccupation of a portion of Gaza...
...Branegan: I think the Israelis had for a while now been pushing the edge of the envelope as to what would be acceptable to Washington, and when they went into Gaza they finally found out where it is. Powell's response has given Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a pretty good idea of where the U.S. draws the line. Washington has in the past criticized some actions of the Sharon government, such as its announcement that it plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, but for the most part Sharon has had a pretty free ride and warm reception. That...