Word: intifada
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...took the bloodiest single outrage of the nine-month intifada to wake Yasser Arafat up to the bankruptcy of his strategy. And it was a rude awakening at that, as European Union diplomats twisted his arm until he cracked and went on Palestinian TV and, speaking in Arabic, condemned the terrorist attack that killed 20 Israelis outside a Tel Aviv nightclub on Friday and ordered his forces to cease firing...
...prompted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to send F-16s to bomb the West Bank and Gaza, this time the Israelis heeded Western appeals to hold their fire. But although its guns were mostly silent, Israel has subjected all Palestinian towns to the harshest chokehold since the current intifada began last October - a collective punishment which may make it more difficult for Arafat to sell his cease-fire to his own constituents. Indeed, an opinion poll published Monday found that in a random sample of some 700 West Bank and Gaza Palestinians, a full 76 percent supported suicide bombings against Israel...
...West Bank and Gaza, demanding tough action in response to Friday's bombing, while Arafat's adherence to a cease-fire makes his own political position even more perilous. He has been forced, as he put it, "in the higher national interest" to essentially call off an intifada that has claimed almost 500 Palestinian lives without realizing any tangible gains. Indeed, on the weekend that he made his call, all West Bank and Gaza Palestinians were facing the harshest crackdown in years on their movements and livelihoods. Sections of Arafat's own Fatah movement that have openly defied...
...bombings. You can't blame me for any of the violence, because there's no shooting; it's not my people." The only way to stop the suicide bombings is through the kind of security coordination, between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the CIA that they had until this intifada began. At that point, there were attacks but they were relatively few. We're not going out on a limb by saying that all the attacks during this intifada, while they were not done by Arafat, were organized by people who very often had been freed from jail by Arafat...
Last October's bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden that killed 17 U.S. Navy personnel was a reminder that bin Laden's networks are far from inactive. And the anti-American rage inflamed throughout the Arab world by the Palestinian intifada suggests his pool of potential recruits will grow no matter how harsh the punishment meted out by a New York jury to the four men convicted of the East Africa embassy bombings...