Word: intifadas
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...causes of the current violence that had been mandated as part of the Sharm el-Sheik cease-fire agreement. Investigations launched by Amnesty International, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the Israeli peace movement have strongly criticized Israel for using excessive force in response to the Palestinian intifada, even though they have to varying degrees criticized aspects of Palestinian conduct. And if the Mitchell inquiry endorses that view, it would add weight to Palestinian demands for an international monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. Mitchell?s centrality to the process may even raise pressure...
Palestinian prosperity promotes peace; Palestinian poverty nurtures war. That logic was one of the foundations of the Oslo peace process, which is why one of its key authors on Tuesday raised the alarm over the state of the Palestinian economy after more than two months of the new intifada. And the World Bank, which seldom acts without a nod from the U.S., on Wednesday made an unprecedented donation of $12 million to the beleaguered Palestinian Authority for immediate job-creation programs...
...Yasser Arafat, who has found his diplomatic leverage expanded by the 10-week intifada - and, arguably, by Barak's reliance on a peace agreement to win reelection - has even higher expectations for the Mitchell inquiry. The Palestinian leader is hoping it will endorse his call for an international peacekeeping or monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. That's an idea to which Israel remains hostile, and for obvious reasons: Arafat wants peacekeepers deployed around Palestinian populations to make it more difficult for Israel to annex land if a Palestinian state is unilaterally declared. Of course...
...Christian tourists had been flocking to the town before the Palestinian authorities made their decision. Bethlehem, which lies seven or eight miles south of central Jerusalem, has been a flash point of confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli troops during the current intifada, and all access points to the town have been tightly guarded by Israeli troops. The Bethlehem suburb of Beit Jalla has suffered heavy Israeli shelling after being used as cover by Palestinian snipers firing on the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. Municipal authorities cited the death of seven Palestinian youths from the town over the past...
...think also that the intifada has conveyed a message to Israelis, both left- and right-wing, that they cannot trust the Palestinians. Will Arafat be able to make the Israelis trust him in six months? It would take centuries, not months, to win back their trust. In fact, if Arafat is seen to be supporting Barak, that would be a problem for Barak himself...