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Across the region, Arabs simply don't buy it. They don't trust Bush, and they're deeply skeptical of American attempts to impose democracy by force. Even if things could change for the better, says Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, "one would have to be truly naive to believe that the current U.S. Administration will invest serious efforts in promoting good governance in the region." Among Arabs, the vision of a postwar Middle East is filled with dread. Many are convinced that a war would breed regional instability and spark...
...chic Palestinian woman in dark glasses strides toward an Israeli checkpoint separating Ramallah from Jerusalem. Armed soldiers shout at her to stop, but she quickens her pace. Then she removes her glasses. Her gaze mesmerizes the guards. As she passes, they wilt in submission--and the tower collapses...
...telling his story, Sabbah wants to show "how a human being can be driven to kill innocent people he doesn't even know." The first seven years of Said's life were uneventful: he grew up on his father's olive farm in the village of Beit Ijza near Ramallah. Then, as he tells it in the book, everything changed. In 1981, he says, the Israelis drove his family out and bulldozed their house to make room for a Jewish settlement. "For the first time in my life I felt an undreamed-of anger," Said says. "Hatred rose...
...Obstacle Course A British conference on reform of the Palestinian Authority went ahead in London, though Palestinian representatives had to join in from Ramallah and Gaza via video phone. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon refused to allow them to travel in the wake of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Palestinians accepted the need for reforms to pave the way to a democratic state and promised to present a draft constitution that would include an elected Prime Minister - a move to sideline President Yasser Arafat...
...help boost the Lebanese group's credibility among Palestinians. According to Palestinian sources familiar with the payouts, Hizballah has distributed $2.5 million in the West Bank over the past six months. These payouts are filling the gap left by Saddam Hussein's money man, who was nabbed in Ramallah by the Israelis a month ago. Under interrogation, Raked Salim implicated Yasser Arafat in the Iraqi leader's cash pipeline to the families of Palestinians killed in the intifadeh. Salim told interrogators he distributed $15 million of Saddam's money during the intifadeh. Families of suicide bombers were paid...