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After years of saying that he had given up terrorism and was seeking peace with the Jewish state, Yasser Arafat has proven that he is still a terrorist. Documents that the Israeli army has seized in Palestinian Authority (PA) offices in Ramallah and elsewhere show that Arafat had personal involvement in supporting and directing attacks against innocent Israelis during the course of the current war. The New York Times reported that documents seized by the Israeli army had Arafat’s signature approving payments to militants who are know to have been involved with terrorist attacks. The documents show...
...surprisingly, are furious at the European response. For nations responsible for the Holocaust to ignore the horrors of suicide attacks on Israeli targets, to shut their ears to the hate for Jews that spews from the Arab media, seems unforgivable. American Jews ask why European peace activists go to Ramallah and Nablus rather than Netanya and Jerusalem. In an essay in the New York Observer, Ron Rosenbaum wrote wrenchingly of a "dynamic" that "suggests that Europeans are willing...to be complicit in the murder of Jews again...
...times, al-Jazeera's coverage has resembled that of a national news channel rallying its people to war. Such was the case four weeks ago, when Israel initially began the siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound. Then the visual mix was electrifying: old images of speeches by a younger, more virile Arafat spliced with startling images of bloodied faces of Palestinian victims, Israeli snipers taking aim at children, and a contemporary clip of Arafat declaring that he wanted to be a "martyr, martyr, martyr, martyr." In response, the young men at Cafe Shahine shook their fists...
...expect a breakthrough. Israeli officials say they plan to hold their positions in Ramallah and Bethlehem until the surrender of Palestinian militants believed to be holed up there. And even after Israeli troops leave, they may go back into West Bank towns to stage "pinpoint operations" against terrorists trying to regroup. But the Israeli offensive may only invite a more savage Palestinian response. Militants belonging to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades told TIME they are preparing to avenge last week's arrest of top Arafat deputy Marwan Barghouti. And they believe the U.S. should share the pain. "Now," says a senior...
...clarifications - a fact-finding mission to investigate Israeli forces' attack on the Jenin refugee camp. Denying allegations of a massacre at Jenin, Israel insists that the U.N. inquiry include an investigation of Palestinian "terrorism" and that both sides agree on a framework for the U.N. team's activities. In Ramallah, the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his besieged headquarters and reported some progress in resolving the standoff at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Nine youths and the bodies of two policemen were allowed to leave the church, where 250 people have been...