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Even by the standards of Palestinian refugee camps, Jenin is gruesomely special. Since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh in September 2000, the camp's activists, drawn from the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have orchestrated at least 28 suicide attacks on Israeli targets. An internal document of Arafat's Fatah organization, written in September last year and captured by the Israelis during a recent sweep, characterized the camp's people as "ready for self-sacrifice with all their means...It is not strange that Jenin has been termed the capital of suicide attackers...
...quickly erasing whatever gains have been made over the past three weeks. For the same reason, Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, stressed that unlike "Operation Defensive Shield" in the West Bank, any actions in Gaza would be short-lived and focused on identifiable strongholds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Still, that's easier said than done...
...brief item describing militant Middle Eastern organizations [WORLD, April 8] included information on the group Islamic Jihad in which we identified its head, Ramadan Shallah, incorrectly as "a former Florida State University professor." Shallah taught at the University of South Florida...
...Poverty and disadvantage fueled by wholesale discrimination. Fertile recruiting grounds in the camps and ghettos. A ready weapons supply. (Gujarat lies on a major arms smuggling route from Pakistan to the Bombay underworld.) And enough past conflict for both communities to nurse historic grievances. The calls for intifadeh and jihad have started?"I am telling people to fight," says Imam Mohammed Ismail, 72, who lives at a refugee camp?and are being answered. "This is not communal violence," says Javed Saiyed, a Muslim from Ahmadabad. "This is civil war." All that is lacking is a Hamas or al-Qaeda...
Arab progressives cannot act as the non-violent protest wings of Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Arabs for peace must engage these militant groups, enemies as real as the Israeli occupying force. Hamas and Islamic Jihad do not advocate a two-state solution. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade pretends to do so while targeting innocent Israelis. Palestinians must recognize these groups as obstacles to peace...