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...dispatch more suicide bombers into Israel despite Arafat's injunctions, and Israel's incoming Chief of Staff, General Moshe Ya'alon has warned that Israel will mount new incursions in Gaza and the West Bank whenever deemed necessary. Washington is aware, however, that defusing the conflict requires keeping the IDF out of Palestinian territory. An Israeli invasion of Gaza - which Ya'alon said was a question of when rather than whether - will likely see the PA suspend whatever efforts it is making to crack down on Palestinian militants...
...even as the Palestinians battle over internal reform and the Israelis lock horns over the shape and timetable of a final political settlement, the security vacuum threatens to eclipse all of those discussions. Indeed, the continued potential for terror attacks inside Israel and for a large-scale IDF retaliation suggests that the current calm may simply be the lull before the next storm...
...Israeli government acknowledges that 23 Israeli soldiers and approximately 50 Palestinians died during the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) incursion into the Jenin refugee camp, but it claims that most of the dead Palestinians were armed fighters. Residents of Jenin disagree; they say that Israeli soldiers shot anything that moved and that most of the dead civilians lie underneath the rubble of their bulldozed homes. However, it has been difficult to confirm reports of a massacre because during the invasion the IDF sealed off the camp from the media, aid organizations and even the Red Cross...
...except Ramallah and Bethlehem by the end of this week. But what the Israeli leader means by withdrawal is unlikely to be enough to coax the Palestinians into a truce - Israeli tanks rolled into new Palestinian neighborhoods Tuesday, and repeat raids in Tulkarm the same day show that the IDF has simply redeployed to the edge of the towns from which it has withdrawn, and reserves the right to reenter them at will in pursuit of terror suspects. As Powell noted, under those circumstances, "cease-fire is not a relevant term...
...believe the current operation will bring the two sides back to cease-fire negotiations any time soon. Most top Israeli security officials have expressed doubts that the current occupation will end the suicide bombings, and Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told the Knesset on Tuesday, "Whoever thinks the IDF operations can stop terrorism is mistaken. Terrorism cannot be stopped with military maneuvers. The operations are intended merely to disrupt the terrorism and stop as many attacks as possible." He expressed the hope that the operation would lead to renewed political negotiations with the Palestinians...