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...giving our occupiers a chance to split our unity." And the reason for their concern was underlined Friday in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, where five Palestinians died and at least 70 were injured when Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen attacked a Palestinian Authority police post. Clashes between the PA and its Palestinian opponents have grown increasingly violent over the past week, and the Hamas announcement appears to have been an attempt to remain on the right side of Palestinian public opinion by stepping back from a Palestinian civil war at a moment of deep political crisis in the West...
...declare Yasser Arafat "irrelevant" and cut all ties with him that dominated Arab headlines this week. And Arab papers see Ariel Sharon rather than Yasser Arafat as the problem. Egypt's Al Ahram blames the crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon, but has harsh words for Hamas...
...European Union and other Palestinian leaders - to take action against Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Calibrating the precise dosage of this pressure is not possible. If it is too weak, it is of no use. If there is an overdose, it is liable to bring about the collapse of the PA and to leave Israel facing millions of Palestinians and dozens of organizations and leaders that cannot impose their authority on one another...
...Still, despite Sharon's dramatic tone and escalation of attacks on Palestinian Authority (PA) targets in the West Bank and Gaza, the portent of his latest message is not yet clear. Pronouncing Arafat "irrelevant" simply repeats, hyperbolically, what many close observers of Palestinian politics have warned of for months - that the aging leader's political authority has waned over the course of the current intifada to the point that he is no longer able to impose his will on the Palestinian street. Or, he is unable to find the political will to reassert his authority against the tide of Palestinian...
...Arafat on Thursday wanly ordered the offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad closed. But Hamas's sprawling welfare operations across the West Bank and Gaza were reportedly open for business that day. And by Friday, the PA had suspended whatever efforts it was prepared to make to round up the militants, claiming the Israeli barrage against its facilities made such action impossible. European and U.N. diplomats are insisting that the only way for the Palestinian leader to save his political hide is to crack down hard on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But that may be wishful thinking, now. It would...