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...cabinet ministers suspected of corruption. Fearing for their lives, several senior Fatah officials fled last month to Jordan. In Nablus, a former Interior Minister narrowly escaped being assassinated Sept. 20 by a group of masked men. Meanwhile, the leader of the Fatah militia in the West Bank town of Jenin said two weeks ago that he no longer considers himself bound by Abbas' "calmness" agreement with the various Palestinian factions. Nowhere among the Fatah men is there the trust that binds Hamas activists. "I don't exclude the possibility that the Authority will kill me," says Abu Samhadana...
...race in the name of the unity emphasized by all Palestinian factions in the wake of Yasser Arafat's passing. "We are against the candidacy of Marwan because it is contrary to the decision of the central committee of Fatah, which unanimously chose [Mahmoud Abbas]," said Zakariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the al-Aksa Brigades. "We will not let anybody, no matter who, create any division or split in the Fatah movement." Zubeidi's views have been echoed by other Fatah militants across the West Bank, and even the hard-line exile Farouk Khadoumi, who remains in Tunis and opposed...
...stand on the podium and look at the hundreds who have come to see you, I want you to know that amongst those eager to hear you is a young Palestinian who has parents and brothers in Ramallah, cousins in Nablus and aunts and uncles in Jenin and Gaza. This young man is me, and I believe that you, Mr. Peres, and I have so many things in common...
...censorship board isn't authorized to decide what is the truth and what is a lie." Israeli supreme court, overruling the national Film Ratings Board's proscription of a documentary about last year's bloody incursion into the Jenin refugee camp. The board had described the film as "distorted...
...Aparisim Ghosh: I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad...