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This may be as good as Middle East peace gets for the foreseeable future - a smoldering stalemate peppered with sporadic violence. Wednesday's case in point: Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships blasted Palestinian Authority targets in Gaza and Ramallah after a Hamas suicide bomber had earlier in the day killed himself and two Israeli teenagers on the border between Israel and the West Bank. The latest attacks followed two bomb blasts in Jerusalem the previous day for which Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, and ongoing clashes throughout the West Bank. The Israeli attacks came as no surprise - Israel had promised...
...renewed Palestinian attacks on Israel have been limited mostly to the new intifadeh that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza last September. But in the present vacuum, there is talk about Lebanon once again becoming a battlefield. A Western diplomat believes 10,000 Palestinian guerrillas are under arms inside the country. Camps like Ein al-Helweh in southern Lebanon, virtually off-limits to the Lebanese army, are awash with AK-47s. With schoolchildren raised on militant nationalism and playing war in the streets, Lebanese regard the refugee camps as ticking time bombs. The fear is that Palestinian guerrillas...
...While Israel took the initial steps of relinquishing control of Gaza and 40 percent of the West Bank, and establishing and arming the Palestinian Authority, Yasir Arafat showed no indication he planned to deliver on his half of the "land for peace" equation. If he had, Israel and others were prepared to implement economic measures that would have vastly improved the quality of life for all Palestinians...
...peace talks appeared on the verge of a breakthrough last summer, the New York Times reported of 90 two- and three-week summer camp programs attended by 25,000 Palestinian teenagers on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Run by aides of Yasir Arafat, it was not your usual camp. Campers are given "the chance to stage a mock kidnapping of an Israeli leader by masked Palestinian commandos, ending with the Israeli bodyguards sprawled dead on the ground," the Times reported. "There is the opportunity to excel in stripping and reassembling a real Kalashnikov rifle." No doubt...
...Jamil Hamad: What Sharon is doing is repeating what he did in Gaza many years ago when he was the Israeli commander there. He adopted the policy of making life for ordinary Palestinians easier, but at the same time giving the hard-liners and militants a hell of a time, trying to isolate them in the Palestinian population...