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...city of Haifa, killing 15 riders, mostly old people. The perpetrators--as well as the bomber who exploded outside a Jerusalem hotel on 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...
What happens next depends mainly on Arafat. By the end of last week his forces had arrested 180 Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists, but only five of them were from the 33-person wanted list Israel had drawn up. Those around the Chairman were making excuses for why he wasn't acting more aggressively. They argued that the strictures Israel continues to place on Palestinians, preventing free movement between Palestinian cities and access to jobs in Israel, create a climate in which it is politically dicey for Arafat to do Israel's bidding. Last week Palestinians spat on Arafat...
...this time the Palestinians didn't like what Maher had to say. In a three-hour meeting with Arafat on Thursday, Maher told him his Fatah faction was linked too closely in international eyes with the terrorists of Hamas. "You have to dissociate yourself from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, so we can defuse the Israeli aggression," Maher said, according to an Arafat aide who was present. "You have a problem with the Americans, the Israelis and with us. We can't support you as long as you are besieged by Islamists...
...Israeli at that. Tamar Gozansky, a member of the Israeli Parliament from the leftist Hadash Party, met with him Tuesday evening in Ramallah. Arafat was in a somber spirit, she said, quiet and tired. He told her he thought Israel was exploiting the deeds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to destroy him. Arafat smiled only once, Gozansky said; that was when she told him she hadn't given up her belief in the peace process. It wasn't clear whether he grinned in appreciation, or out of amusement at her naivete...
...SOUTHEAST ASIA: Could violent Islamist groups in nations like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines take up the relay of training jihad fighters? Al-Qaeda is said to have cells and camps set up in the Philippines and has made common cause with the Abu Sayyaf rebels fighting for a Muslim state on the island of Mindanao. The damp jungles may not be familiar turf for al-Qaeda fighters, but they made a safe guerrilla beachhead for the Abu Sayyaf. The Bush Administration has promised President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo $19 million to combat the rebels and will soon send a stockpile...