Word: hizballah
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Palestinian sources say the Ba'athist Arab Liberation Front, funded by Saddam, is gaining strength, particularly in the northern West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus. The A.L.F. is under popular pressure to act in order to keep up with its rival, Hizballah, which is backed by Saddam's archenemy, Iran. Hizballah is making big new inroads in the West Bank with its tight organization and the roadside bombs. Palestinian and Israeli officials expect that it is only a matter of time before A.L.F. activists begin to fight--probably by shooting at Israeli settlers on isolated West Bank roads. Even...
...Today, Israeli leaders remain divided - and not along partisan lines, either - over whether leaving Lebanon to save Israeli lives helped put Israel into its current predicament in the West Bank and Gaza. But for the Palestinian militants, there is no debate. The Hizballah strategy is being pursued by a range of Palestinian militant groups, ranging from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to elements of Arafat's own Fatah organization and even cells created by Hizballah itself, who see firing on Israeli soldiers and settlers with assault rifles and mortars, setting off remote-controlled roadside bombs and sending suicide bombers into Israel...
...while the Hizballah victory in Lebanon would have given Palestinian militants a lift and emboldened them in arguments with moderates, it's hard to imagine that the latest intifada would have been avoided if Israel had kept its army in southern Lebanon. If they'd stayed, it's more than possible right now that they'd be facing the Hizballah strategy on two fronts...
...shoot-down may dominate the day's headlines, for Israelis the anniversary has been an opportunity to reflect on their government's decision to unilaterally end its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon - a decision forced on Israel by the relentless stream of casualties inflicted on its forces by Hizballah's low-intensity guerrilla campaign. When then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave the order to withdraw, in line with a campaign promise to pull out within a year of his election, he was expressing the will of some 70 percent of Israeli voters, who could no longer see any valid...
...sure, Israel's northern towns have been left unmolested despite the withdrawal, although Hizballah has continued to attack Israeli forces in the Shebaa Farms district, which the Lebanese militia claims as part of Lebanon but the United Nations recognizes as part of the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Hizballah also claims it is fighting on to press for the release of Lebanese and Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. But the fact that Syria is the de facto military power in Lebanon and sets the rules within which Lebanese groups operate, Hizballah's continued campaign has been widely interpreted...