Word: palestinians
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...suicide bombers killed 13 and wounded 170 in the attack, which was claimed by the radical Islamist group Hamas. The bloodshed scotched the latest attempts at reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians and set back U.S. plans to reinvigorate the comatose peace process. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has suffered yet another blow to his fragile authority, cornered dangerously between militant Islamists and enraged Israelis. Also in political trouble within his ruling coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now probably faces more pressure to move further to the right...
...This action, which ends the 1996 ceasefire between Israel and Hizballah, may merely mean a return to business as usual. But it couldn't have come at a worse time. TIME's West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad reports that resentment is brewing in Palestinian territory: "there is a prevailing feeling of despair, frustration and anger," says Hamad. By Sunday, even Dennis Ross may be powerless to prevent the pot boiling over...
...burst. Yasser Arafat today accused the Israeli government of an "act of war" and urged Palestinians to "prepare for battle". The Palestinian president's sabre-rattling came in an interview with Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, which quoted him as saying that "Netanyahu has declared war on us and we have to prepare for what will come. The situation is serious...
...didn't see this coming, according to TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. Freezing up to two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's revenue ? Israel's attempt to force Arafat to crack down on Islamic militants ? was bound to backfire. "What it is actually doing is antagonizing (Arafat)," says Beyer...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government plans to force Yasser Arafat to crack down on Islamic militants by freezing up to two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's revenue. But this strategy may backfire, reports TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "It's meant to scare Arafat into action," says Beyer, "but what it is actually doing is antagonizing him into continued inaction...