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...target the militants with high-tech weaponry, and Arafat is instead appealing to Washington to intercede and stop Israel's track-and-kill campaign. It won't help his case that Palestinian courts hand down death sentences to convicted collaborators, especially now that Palestinian rage following last week's Nablus air strike has pressured Arafat to order mass arrests...
...failure of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire to take hold has left the Israelis relying increasingly on their overwhelming technological advantage to track and eliminate Palestinians accused of organizing terror attacks. Last week's laser-guided missile attack that killed eight people in and around a Hamas office in Nablus was followed by further Israeli missile strikes in the West Bank on Saturday and Sunday. And despite the fact that Israel has already killed dozens of Palestinians in such attacks, the pace of attempted terror attacks may even be increasing...
...Matt Rees: This has been part of the Palestinian Authority's reaction to Tuesday's strike on Hamas leaders in Nablus. Four alleged collaborators were sentenced to death for cases that reach back as far as last December. Four more Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israelis have also simply been killed in the past three days, one of them just this past lunchtime. And we're likely to see a lot more of these, because a major focus of Palestinian rage following the latest Israeli attacks has been the ideas that without the support of Palestinian collaborators, the Israelis...
...Domestically, his position is very tricky. I attended the funeral in Nablus earlier this week, and the images I saw - large numbers of gunmen, militiamen riding around in trucks and so on had more than a whiff of Lebanon in the 1970s. And that's a serious problem for Arafat. When you take that rising militancy together with the anger expressed at Arafat's own administration for not protecting Palestinians fighting intifiada, it appears that his control has been severely weakened. Early on in the intifada, I believe he could have stopped it immediately if he really wanted...
Balata and Nablus are not the only Palestinian communities torn by internal conflict. Tribal, social and regional enmities throughout the Palestinian territories grow more violent by the day. The intifadeh was supposed to free Palestinians from Israeli occupation, but it is fast pushing them into crime, poverty and gang war. Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority seven years ago, the society of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been cracking under the dual strains of Arafat's corrupt rule and continued occupation by Israel. The intifadeh took those fissures and blew them apart. This semi-anarchy has alarming...