Word: intifadas
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...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...
...There's a question of how quickly Arafat could stop attacks on Israelis, and the answer is in a couple of hours. But so far, throughout the intifada he hasn't viewed it as in his interest. Suicide attacks and shootings have been in his interest. He is in a good deal of control. It's kind of an organized chaos in the West Bank...
...Does Sunday's decision by 13 radical Palestinian factions to continue the intifada mean they are defying Arafat? What is Arafat's motivation...