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Hamas and groups associated with Arafat have developed increasingly close links since the collapse of the Camp David peace talks in the summer of 2000. After rejecting Israel's offer for a final settlement, Arafat returned home to encourage a new intifadeh, or uprising. Once the promise of a negotiated settlement with Israel faded, there was no longer a major ideological division between Arafat's secular nationalists and the Islamists, who reject any accommodation with Israel...
...Wednesday, killing himself alone and blowing his head through a window of the establishment's fifth floor--were from the militant Islamic organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad rather than factions loyal to Arafat. But because of his lenient treatment of those groups during the current 14-month-long intifadeh, Arafat is held accountable by Israel for their terrorism. "We regard Mr. Arafat as guilty of everything," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told TIME late last week...
...right-wing coalition would make things easier for Sharon in the Cabinet room, and in any case Israelis are moving swiftly toward the right as the violence of the intifadeh continues. In a poll last week in Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, 53% of Israelis surveyed said they believed Arafat should be deposed, while 24% thought the Palestinian leader should be killed. But Sharon remembers the divisions that shattered Israeli society when a right-wing government, in which he was the Defense Minister, took the army into Lebanon in 1982 without left-wing support, and when a left-wing...
...greatest strength and its best cover. About 60% of the budget goes to dawah, the legitimate network of schools, mosques, orphanages, clinics, youth clubs, athletic teams and libraries that Hamas has spread into virtually every corner of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Nablus before the new intifadeh, 3,700 families received financial help from Hamas; now 7,000 do. Among the services offered are lifetime annuities to sustain the families of suicide bombers recruited from Hamas classrooms and soccer fields. "These guys kill Israelis, but they also secure their families from poverty," says a Hamas activist...
...Islamic group Hamas launched its new Qassam 1 rocket, which is based on an old North Korean design, toward an Israeli town last week. It landed in an open field, causing no casualties, but because of its range, the rocket could make the terror attacks of the intifadeh much more effective. Named for a military division of Hamas, the weapon has a range of 3 miles, far longer than Hamas' garage-built mortar shells. Palestinian security chiefs tell TIME that Hizballah operatives bought or stole a rocket from Syrian soldiers in Lebanon and smuggled it to Gaza, where a Hamas...