Word: hezbollah
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...indicted men are mostly Saudi members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrilla movement, and the indictment alleges that unnamed Iranian officials "inspired, supported and supervised" the accused men in their surveillance activities preceding the attack. And it doesn't take an intelligence analyst to figure out that an organization "supported and supervised" by Iran would not attack the world's most powerful military in a traditionally hostile neighboring country unless someone pretty powerful in Tehran had signed off on the strike. And although outgoing FBI director Louis Freeh had accused the Clinton Administration of soft-pedaling on the case...
...only the radical Islamists who have no interest in the cease fire: A growing faction of Arafat's own Fatah organization see no value in ending their intifada in order to send Arafat back to negotiate with the Israelis and Americans. Instead, they're more inclined to believe that Hezbollah's tactic of protracted guerrilla warfare will ultimately drive Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza...
...There are, of course, also internal Palestinian dynamics at work - Hamas is facing a growing challenge for primacy among the radical groups from cells established in Palestinian areas by the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, which creates pressure on Hamas to escalate its deadly activities. And all of the radical groups, who believe armed struggle is the only way to drive Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza, share an interest in sabotaging renewed efforts to forge a cease-fire...
...Indeed, the current state of "dialogue" between Israel and Syria may be revealed in the contents of a fishing boat intercepted near Haifa en route from Lebanon to Gaza on Monday. Israeli authorities said the vessel contained rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets, the artillery-of-choice of Hezbollah. The Iran-backed Lebanese militia which has periodically acted as a Syrian proxy has formed Palestinian cells in Gaza, which have been behind the mortar attacks on Israeli settlements in that territory. If the rockets intercepted by the Israelis were indeed sent by Hezbollah - which may provoke a sharp Israeli response...
...reduce violence. Arafat's political authority in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly not what it was even a year ago, when no one dared publicly question his orders - recently, his calls to halt mortar attacks and to disband local committees coordinating armed activities between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and his own Fatah movement have not only been ignored, they've been openly challenged. He may be reluctant to risk further diminishing his power by trying to rein in Palestinian militants in the absence of any tangible gains from the sacrifices ordinary Palestinians have been forced to make...