Word: intifadas
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...Fatah-based Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, and also to clamp down on the militant Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Arafat opposes the idea of confronting the militants, for fear that this could lead to a Palestinian civil war. But Abu Mazen has long maintained that the armed intifada is a dead end for the Palestinians, and that progress towards statehood requires a forceful change of course...
...opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only 3 percent identified Abu Mazen as their Palestinian leader of choice - compared with 35 percent for Arafat, 20 percent for imprisoned intifada leader Marwan Barghouti and 15 percent for Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Arafat had hoped that Abu Mazen's domestic political weakness would make him reliant on the man who appointed him; instead Abu Mazen has sought to build a coalition of Palestinian groups to back his program...
...infighting among the Palestinians is a reminder of the depths of the challenges that lie ahead. When the road map is eventually published, Israelis and Palestinians will be forced to contend with the question of its destination. And while Abu Mazen may oppose the violent strategy of the intifada, he is not prepared to accept a final settlement in which the Palestinians get less than what Israel offered at the doomed Taba talks in January of 2001 - Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza based on Israeli withdrawal to a modified version of its 1967 borders, and a mechanism...
...first stage of the road map calls for Israel to immediately remove settlement outposts built since March 2001 and to completely freeze all settlement activity after a general cease-fire. At the same time, it obligates the Palestinian leadership to immediately end the armed intifada and all acts of violence against Israelis. Sensibly, the most difficult issues—such as the final borders of the two states and the disposition of Palestinian refugees—are left to the last phase of negotiations...
...September 2000, bitterness toward the U.S. began to harden again. One reason was the breakdown of the U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which the U.S. blamed on the Palestinians. Another reason was what Arabs saw as American backing for Israel's strong military response to the Palestinian intifada. In any discussion about Bush's policies, no Arab will fail to remind you that the President once called hard-line Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon a "man of peace...