Word: intifadas
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...they've made it abundantly clear they have no interest in observing any cease-fire agreement. Even more alarming, though, may be the open defiance of Arafat being displayed by his own Fatah movement, whose armed Tanzim militiamen have fought running gun battles with the Israelis throughout the current intifada. Last weekend, for example, Arafat ordered the disbanding of local "Popular Resistance Committees" set up throughout the West Bank and Gaza to coordinate the armed activities of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groupings. But Palestinian sources tell TIME that Fatah leaders such as Marwan Barghouti have rejected Arafat...
...Hamas has had help from Hezbollah for years. But when the Aqsa intifada erupted last fall, Hezbollah's leaders saw a chance to boost their prestige in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to expand their brand of Islamic revolution to the gates of Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest city. They aren't keen to share the spotlight with Hamas. In the past few months, Hezbollah canceled the training of Hamas operatives in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and in Iran. Hezbollah is still training Palestinians, but when it sends them back to the Gaza Strip or West Bank, they...
...demonstrate that it can still do more than put on a defiant show at the funerals of its "martyrs," Hamas fired a series of 82-mm mortars on the Israeli town of Sderot. "We have to prove ourselves," the Hamas military-wing officer tells TIME. Early in the intifada, Palestinian and Israeli security officials say, Arafat freed Hamas fighters from his jails and gave them a green light to bomb Israeli towns. An agent in Arafat's General Intelligence was suspended in December when he tried to arrest a Hamas cell in Gaza that was planning suicide bombings, according...
...always been to kill the peace process. The achievement of the Palestinian Authority is that Israelis are absolutely united now in not trusting any Palestinian. The idea of reconciliation between Israel and the Palestinians is not only dead; it's buried. What we're seeing now is not an intifada any longer. The intifada, too, is over - now we're seeing something that those in the military academies would call a "low-intensity...
...There is a sense in which that's true. But the important thing is the matter of degree. The U.S. would like to see our Arab allies, such as Egypt and Jordan, do more to influence the Palestinians. Everyone has a role to play here, and the intifada causes them domestic political trouble, too. And those states are obviously asking the U.S. to do what it can to restrain Sharon...