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...Monday -- may be good news for Benjamin Netanyahu. "It would free Netanyahu of any obligations under the Oslo peace accords, which he opposed, and would freeze the current situation in Palestinian territories," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "That would mean a Palestinian state in half of Gaza and a few islands of the West Bank...
When a relative is condemned to death, it's not the usual thing to take out a newspaper ad urging the swift implementation of the sentence. But that is what the ABU-SULTAN family of the Gaza Strip did--and it got its wish. Last week the Palestinian Authority of Chairman YASSER ARAFAT conducted the first executions in its four years of self-rule when brothers MOHAMED and RAED ABU-SULTAN were killed by firing squad in Gaza City after being convicted of murdering another pair of brothers, MAJDI and MOHAMED AL-KHALDI, on a Gaza street. Their trial...
...appreciated by Hussein, who signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Says the Jordanian official: "The King no longer wants it thought that the leadership of Hamas is in Jordan. And if Hamas carries out a new wave of bombings, he wants Israeli eyes directed at the Gaza Strip and not here." More pointedly, a senior official of the Palestinian Authority says, "The King wants Hamas to come to the conclusion that its place is no longer in Jordan." That may be happening. Last week Hamas sources said they were relocating the headquarters of their political wing from Jordan...
Sourani, a 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, divided his remarks between attacks on Israel--which he said enforces a "de facto apartheid" in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank--and the Palestinian Authority. He accused the Authority of responding to Western calls for crackdowns on militant groups by suspending due process and resorting to torture of suspected criminals...
According to both Israeli and Palestinian sources, the West Bank branch of Izzaddin al-Kassam, the military wing of Hamas, has recently gone independent from the group's leadership in the Gaza Strip. Says a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank: "We are no longer waiting for the orders to come from Gaza." Izzaddin al-Kassam's West Bank commander, ADEL AWEDALLAH, is said to be hungry for action. "He knows his days are numbered," says a ranking Israeli army officer. "We're after him, the Palestinians are after him, and he's trying to do everything he can before...