Word: ghazi
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Taking on terror suspects directly, the Israeli government issued an arrest warrant for Palestinian police chief Ghazi Jabali, whom the Israelis accuse of inciting an attack on a Jewish settlement in the West Bank last month. Most ominously, Netanyahu's government warned that if Arafat didn't neutralize activists, Israel would send its forces back into areas now under Palestinian self-rule to do the job. That would be a blatant violation of the Israeli-Palestinian accords. "You're not going to see tanks or columns of soldiers going inside," says a senior Israeli officer in the West Bank...
...certainly Kansi had a lot weighing on his soul. An accused killer, he was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, and had been on the run for four years. Now he was holed up in the Shalimar Hotel, a seedy establishment in Dera Ghazi Khan, a city in central Pakistan. He groggily opened his door...
...partners. "It's in the interest of the government to pressure Arafat but not to deliver a knockout punch," says Yaron Ezrahi, a senior fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. Nor can Peres afford to incite the Palestinian public so much that it turns violently against the accords. Says "Ghazi," a figure in the military wing of Hamas: "The Israelis are laying the ground for a revolution, and we are going to lead...
...Hamas' political wing publicly asked their military cohort to suspend their attacks. The political leaders were apparently worried that Arafat would begin shutting down the many institutions of Hamas--schools, clinics, mosques, charities--that anchor it deeply in the Palestinian community. In a leaflet, the military wing purportedly acceded. Ghazi, however, insists the document was a fraud. "I tell you frankly and clearly, there is no truce," he says. "We will continue...
...suicide bombings, Israel had placed tough restrictions on Palestinian laborers entering the country each day for work, thereby causing massive unemployment in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. "As a result, the man in the street began to believe the military operations were responsible for his sufferings," says Ghazi Hamad, the editor of the Hamas newspaper al-Watan, which Arafat shut down three weeks ago. Public support is critically important to Hamas. Formed in 1988 as an offshoot of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed to a holy war to liberate not only the Gaza Strip and West...