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...Israel's beleaguered peace camp went even further, questioning the timing of the strike in light of the comparative calm of recent weeks and renewed diplomatic activity. The dovish Haaretz newspaper pointed to previous instances, such as the assassination earlier this year of Fatah Tanzim commander Raed Karni, which prompted a wave of Palestinian terror attacks in retaliation and ended a period of relative quiet. But it dismissed the charge that this was the result of a deliberate attempt to sabotage peace efforts...
...prove to be self-defeating: Israel had planned to ease the burden of its reoccupation of West Bank towns out of recognition that the rage and despair fueled by its stranglehold over Palestinian daily life fuels sustains, rather than discourages terrorism. An Israeli officer in Nablus last week told Haaretz that the reason it was necessary to ease the siege of the Palestinian city was that "We don't want suicide bombing to become the residents' only source of income" - reference to cash payments from Iraq and Saudi Arabia to the families of Palestinian "martyrs...
...Press conferences held by prisoners with their interrogators present should always be taken with at least a pinch of salt. Still, Islamic Jihad's Thabet Mardawi offered some fascinating insights to Haaretz on the battle for Jenin, and the politics and mechanics of suicide bombing...
...arresting Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Israel may have given him the inside track in the race to succeed Yasser Arafat, argues Haaretz's Danny Rubinstein. Imprisoning Barghouti will only increase his moral authority over Palestinian militants, Rubeinstein says, and that will likely make his endorsement necessary for the success of any long-term peace agreement - once the 73-year-old Arafat has passed from the scene, the imprisoned Barghouti's importance in Palestinian politics could become the equivalent of that of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela in South Africa...
...American dictates and the sky did not fall," writes the Post in an editorial on the lessons of the Powell visit. The lesson drawn is that Sharon should get on with booting out Arafat, and Bush will fall into line. From the other end of the spectrum, Haaretz warns the Bush administration that Sharon's repeated vows in recent days to maintain every Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza "cast a dark shadow" over President Bush's claim that the Israeli prime minister is a "man of peace." In the mean time, they warn, he may be about...