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This morning I was really surprised when my nine-year-old son Mohammed began a determined entry into Palestinian-Israeli politics: he asked me why the father of Mohammed al-Durra, the 12-year-old boy killed in Gaza, could not protect his son from the Israeli bullets. Why did [the Israelis] kill him? These days, everybody asks me questions. My daughter Dalal, 18, asked me about her friend Asil, from [the peace group involving Israeli and Palestinian children] Seeds of Peace, who was also killed by the Israelis. Others ask me when the Israelis will lift the closure...
...government hospital was crowded with people. The administration of the hospital announced the death of Ismail Shamlakh. He was from the Gaza Strip. He came with his brother to work in the West Bank a few months ago. He was unable to see his pregnant wife, whom he left in Gaza. His son will be born as an orphan. Mourners came to pay their respects to his brother. "You should come to congratulate me," he said. "My brother wanted to be a martyr...
...have helped Ehud Barak get elected last year, but the Israeli prime minister's political survival now appears dependent on the sort of U-turns conjured up by the Clinton administration's former policy Svengali. As the death toll from the renewed intifada in the West Bank and Gaza reached 161 Monday - all but 12 of them Arab - the prime minister elected on promises of completing the peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin found himself fighting for his political life Monday, having failed to form an emergency unity government with Ariel Sharon's hawkish Likud party. Israel's parliament reconvened...
...most notorious Palestinian terrorist group in the '90s 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. A worrying development for Israel has been growing ties between Hamas and Hezbollah. Thus far, though, Israeli security officials believe that Osama Bin Laden's forces have not for the most part directly targeted Israel...
...Israeli leaders also began informing the media over the weekend of plans to unilaterally disengage from the Palestinians by fencing off the West Bank and Gaza and building a closed, fortified border. But while the unilateral divorce option may have a visceral appeal to Israelis shocked by the recent violence, it doesn't fly easily as a geopolitical option. The point of making peace with the Palestinians was to be able to withdraw from the West Bank on the basis of agreements preventing the territory becoming a base for hostility against the Jewish state along its most vulnerable flank...