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...Tehran conference in support of the Palestinian Intifadeh was a resounding social success: plane hijackers munched on puff pastry, militia leaders from struggles past greeted each other warmly. It was a sunny reunion of anybody who's somebody in the region's resistance underworld. Intended to compensate for the disappointment of the recent Arab Summit in Amman - which failed to produce violent rhetoric or come up with funds to support the Palestinians -- the Tehran summit ended up being mostly about Iran's regional ambitions. Delegates from 34 Islamic countries assembled to hear Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demand...
...want to understand the complexity of the battles being fought in the Gaza Strip, take a look at Adnan al-Ghoul's resume. An activist in the first intifadeh, al-Ghoul was deported by Israel to Lebanon in 1992. There he hooked up with Hezbollah. Al-Ghoul sneaked back into Gaza City in 1996 with forged documents, but he still maintains close ties with Hezbollah - especially since he runs a major bomb factory in Gaza City, according to Palestinian intelligence officials. Al-Ghoul sells hand grenades for $50 and belts packed with TNT for use in suicide bombs...
...Tehran meeting, at the very least, will make it still harder for Arafat and Sharon to find any way to put an end to the violence. After all, it will be a conclave of leaders who suspect Arafat of wanting to find a face-saving way to end the intifadeh by pushing Sharon into an attack - which in turn would claim a large number of Palestinian lives and thus prompt international intervention to separate the two sides, something Israel opposes. But even if Hizballah and Hamas don't bury the hatchet, their knives are still out for Israel...
This conflict, of course, has forced many people to see sights they do not ever want to see. And determining which few of those sights the world shares has become a front in itself, a pixel intifadeh. The battle erupted on the Internet last December when msnbc.com sponsored a contest for the best news photo of 2000. The early leader was a picture of Mohammed al-Durra, 12, a terrified Palestinian boy screaming and hiding behind his father in the midst of a street battle in the Gaza Strip. Moments after the photo was taken, he was killed...
...photographs have usually better served the outgunned, like Iraqis leading media tours of purportedly civilian sites bombed during the Gulf War. For the overdog, the device risks showing weakness: pictures of American POWs in Vietnam undermined rather than galvanized support at home. But the Israelis, who in the first intifadeh suffered the ill p.r. effects of pictures of their soldiers firing on rock-throwing protesters, have learned that a measured message of victimhood is important to the well armed too. In the early days of this intifadeh, the Israeli government benefited from horrific images of the mob lynching...