Word: intifadeh
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...doing pretty well these days. Or is he? What the summit demonstrated is that things would be going better for Iraq if it wasn't for Saddam. True, he has been getting richer, thanks to snowballing illegal trade across Iraq's borders with Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iran. The intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is another godsend. With ever louder public demands for an end to Iraqi suffering, Arab states are violating a ban on commercial air travel with regular flights to Baghdad...
...Israel tightened its closure around Palestinian towns early last week, blockading Ramallah, the "intifadeh capital" of the West Bank, because it said it had uncovered a terrorist cell planning further attacks on Israelis. But E.U. ministers warned that they might suspend a key agreement with Israel if the economic stranglehold of Palestinian areas was not relaxed. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave military officials discretion to ease restrictions, but many roads to Palestinian villages throughout the West Bank remained blocked by trenches or piles of rubble set up by the Israeli army...
...renewed Palestinian attacks on Israel have been limited mostly to the new intifadeh that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza last September. But in the present vacuum, there is talk about Lebanon once again becoming a battlefield. A Western diplomat believes 10,000 Palestinian guerrillas are under arms inside the country. Camps like Ein al-Helweh in southern Lebanon, virtually off-limits to the Lebanese army, are awash with AK-47s. With schoolchildren raised on militant nationalism and playing war in the streets, Lebanese regard the refugee camps as ticking time bombs. The fear is that Palestinian guerrillas...
There's always the old way, of course: the armed struggle, terrorism, intifadeh. But Arafat is getting a little old to lead another guerrilla war. And that way didn't work either...
Meanwhile, Arafat's personal Force 17 commando group has taken control of the streets after fresh rumblings of discontent. Recently, an angry mob besieged a police station and set free a youth arrested by one of Arafat's officers for gun running. With each passing day the intifadeh becomes more of a guerrilla war, including armed attacks by Arafat's security men working underground. Last week in Gaza, as Sharon forged a unity government with Barak, Israel assassinated a Force 17 commander, alleging he attacked a Jewish settlement. The following day, a Gaza bus driver in Israel killed eight Israelis...