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...Arafat may have some control over the militants in his own Fatah organization, but he is not capable of restricting the Islamist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Today the Israelis defused 20 powerful roadside bombs in Gaza, and there was some mortar shelling. And if he goes after the Islamists, he'd be in big trouble among his own people and throughout the Arab world. On the ground, the radical line is winning these days...
...Islamists as brothers in arms, and has been coordinating activities on the ground in Gaza with those groups. And while suicide bombings inside Israel are the signature modus operandi of the Islamist groups, Fatah militants and members of Arafat's security forces also have been engaged in shooting and mortar attacks in Gaza and the West Bank...
...whole summer, with events that range from lecture series to local-history celebrations and performing-arts extravaganzas. Some annual festivals, like the Williamstown Theatre Festival at Williams College, have become renowned, while others flourish as treasured local secrets. A few phone calls can transform the brick-and-mortar blur of a college tour into a cultural education for the whole family. A sampling...
...staff editorial “Powell Strong, But Not Enough,” (Editorial, May 2) praised the Secretary of State for criticizing Israel's efforts to end deadly Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks. The editorial called Israel's reaction to the Palestinian attacks “aggressive” and stated that it “represented a drastic escalation of the ongoing unrest in the region...
...because the flash-point of that violence is fast becoming become the network of Israeli settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza, built after those lands were captured by Israel in the war of 1967. Palestinian militants have begun to make the settlements the focus of their mortar and shooting attacks, and when Yasser Arafat has - under pressure from Washington - called for an end to such attacks, he has simply been ignored. The settlements are an appealing target for the militants not only because are they universally hated by Palestinians as the product of confiscation under the power...