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JERUSALEM: "Violence, sadly, is the only card the Palestinians have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes...
JERUSALEM: "Violence, sadly, is the only card the Palestinians have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes...
JERUSALEM: "Violence, sadly, is the only card the Palestinians have," notes TIME's Johanna McGeary. Despite two days of shuttle diplomacy by Dennis Ross, the Palestinians continue to play it on Friday. For the ninth straight day, Palestinians and Israeli police traded rocks and fire-bombs for tear gas and rubber bullets in Hebron. Benjamin Netanyahu maintains that Yasser Arafat unleashes militants at will, using violence as a bargaining chip. He and insisted Friday on a decisive crackdown. That seems unlikely. "Arafat has to weigh whether a crackdown is worth the political price he will pay with the right," notes...
...Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. The bombing, the first such attack in over a year, was condemned by Yasser Arafat, but Netanyahu blamed the Palestinian leader for the incident, charging that Arafat had done nothing to discourage militants. This critique may be credible in some respects, says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "While Arafat has publicly stood up and made pleas for nonviolent, peaceful protests, he has also allowed dozens of Hamas activists, including their operations chief, to go free. So while he didn't publicly give anybody the green light to engage in violence, he didn't have to. Once...
...Reported by Douglas Waller/Washington, Johanna McGeary/New York, Mark Coatney/New York, Jenifer Mattos/Seattle and John Zebrowski/New York