Word: intifadas
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...have pretty much headed right, from the start of the whole thing. People who were on the left, in many cases, also headed way right. There really isn?t much left in terms of people who are trying to push to get back to where things were before the intifada. A moderate position now on the Israeli side would be to argue that if you can?t go back to where things were before the intifada, at least go back to negotiations. A moderate position on the Palestinian side would be to shut up, because there would be a real...
...question that comes to mind is one that?s been going on throughout the intifada and not changing. The Israelis and Americans want him to arrest the Hamas people. He either doesn?t want to or can?t. Maybe he believes it would make him look weak, and perhaps doesn?t want to because he wants to be able to unleash the violence on the Israelis, or at least threaten it - he can say "I can?t control them, it?s not me, I condemn the bombings...
...high. And the leaders - Sharon is under pressure. The rightists are saying 'we're burying our people every day and you're doing nothing.' Arafat is also under pressure, because there are voices within Palestinian society calling for no end to this intifada. So it's not easy for either of them...
...fact that the "confidence building" mechanisms of the current truce include a freeze on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza, which Sharon and his supporters reject, the cease-fire is supposed to result in a revival of the political negotiations eclipsed by the ten-month intifada. But the political talks broke down at Camp David when Yasser Arafat was unable to embrace the deal offered by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak - and Sharon plans to offer the Palestinians considerably less than Barak did. In other words, when it comes to political negotiations, Sharon and Arafat...
...Arafat's authority by sending their kamikazes into Israel when he's trying to return to peace talks. And it's not 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...