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...prison in Jericho since April. He was imprisoned under U.S. and British supervision as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement to end Israel's siege of Arafat's Ramallah compound. Israel accuses Saadat of masterminding the assassination of right-wing Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi last year, but the PA court ordered his release on the grounds that no evidence had been presented against Saadat, and no legal proceedings conducted. Arafat had arrested Saadat not for legal reasons, but in order to satisfy the Israeli and American demand that he clamp down on Israel's most wanted. Israeli officials immediately...
...Arafat has in the past routinely denied court orders ordering the release of detainees held without due process - but with all this talk of reforming and democratizing the PA in the air, a ruling that puts the rule of law and separation of powers at odds with the demand that Arafat crack down on Israel's most wanted highlights the political crisis. Israel and the U.S. want a Palestinian leadership that cracks down on militancy, but doing that will require an authoritarian strongman ready to enforce his will against the tide of Palestinian public opinion. If, as has been widely...
...Israelis insist their security needs now require this de-facto reoccupation of Area A, and are openly disdainful of the Bush administration's plans to rebuild PA security structures in the hope they'll resume their Oslo-mandated function...
...back in the game. While Ariel Sharon's siege may have failed to render the Palestinian leader "irrelevant," Arafat's newfound freedom may, ironically, have done the job. Arafat denounced the Petah Tikvah bombing, as he has done in response to a number of recent attacks inside Israel - PA leaders even refer to these attacks as "terrorist operations." But that has done nothing to stop a relentless stream of Palestinian youths from turning themselves into human bombs...
...many Israelis have expressed surprise and alarm at how soon after "Defensive Shield" Palestinian attacks have resumed. Washington, at least formally, is opposed to Israel seeking a military solution, and the Bush administration's game plan, in concert with moderates, is to restore conditions for dialogue by getting the PA's security structures to clamp down hard on prospective terrorists. But right now ordinary Palestinians are not taking the PA's security structures any more seriously than the Israelis are, and the two effects tend to reinforce each other: The Israelis are in the West Bank because they...