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...Palestinian leadership is plainly aware that Israel's offensive has turned international public opinion strongly against Sharon, and they hope to hold onto that PR advantage by restraining suicide bombers from crossing Israel's 1967 borders. An Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade commander told the New York times two days ago that his group would refrain from sending bombers into Israel proper, focusing their attacks only on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And the Palestinian Authority appears to have extracted a similar promise from Hamas in order to avoid a Palestinian civil war - because...
...than ever. Half of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza now lives below the poverty line, and even middle class residents of established West Bank towns are reduced to begging neighbors for assistance. Few observers of Palestinian politics are surprised that Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades are having no trouble recruiting suicide bombers, because there's nothing in the present situation that offers young Palestinians hope for a better future...
...Arafat's Ramallah compound. Then the visual mix was electrifying: old images of speeches by a younger, more virile Arafat spliced with startling images of bloodied faces of Palestinian victims, Israeli snipers taking aim at children, and a contemporary clip of Arafat declaring that he wanted to be a "martyr, martyr, martyr, martyr." In response, the young men at Cafe Shahine shook their fists and shouted things like, "I'll go! I'll go help fight...
...disruption led to a slight dip in attacks. But the organization's bombmaking expertise bounced back within a couple of months, Israeli security officials concede. "These operations cannot, absolutely cannot, be stopped," says Marzouk. "Nothing, neither policies nor military barricades, can prevent a person who chooses to be a martyr from carrying out his action." That has certainly been the experience with crackdowns by the Israelis...
...Mohammed, 19, blew himself up in Jerusalem on March 2, after positioning himself next to a group of women with baby carriages waiting for their husbands to leave a bar mitzvah ceremony. He killed nine other people and injured more than 50 in the name of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Two weeks ago, a neighbor came by to pay a condolence call. She mentioned that she wished she were Mohammed's mother so her son could be a martyr. Ibtisam began crying uncontrollably, and another one of her sons showed the woman out the door. Says Ibtisam: "Palestinian mothers...