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...bottles of champagne and wine, each a gift from his superiors, each tagged with the name of a terrorist captured or killed. The Israelis rely on a web of informers for information. Saleh Abdul Jawad, a political science professor at Birzeit University, says Israel has "tens of thousands" of Palestinian informers on its payroll. Some keep tabs on who prays at mosques, while others burrow into militant cells, planting bugs and betraying planned actions to their controllers. "Every small part of Palestinian life is under Shin Bet control," says Abdul Jawad. "You need their permission to travel from one town...
...that of the Palestinian Authority harder. Under agreements made with Israel, the P.A. is supposed to crack down on militants threatening Israel. When it has suited Abbas to arrest his political foes in Hamas, he has been only too happy to oblige the Israelis (more than 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants are now in Palestinian jails). But Abbas cannot crack down on militants when Israel is showing its mailed fist, as it has done of late in Gaza. So at the height of the Israeli assault, Abbas was unable to stop one of his lieutenants from releasing 20 Hamas...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the sexiest conflict in the world, and everybody wants to be involved,” Livni said...
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called last night for the establishment of a Palestinian state to include refugees who currently reside outside of Palestinian territories in an address in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics...
...Palestinian state is the answer for the national aspirations of Palestinians wherever they are,” Livni said, emphasizing her support for a two state solution...