Word: ramallah
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...called for jihad and a million martyrs—suicide bombers—to march on Jerusalem. Asking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to control the numerous terrorist factions is equivalent to asking Osama bin Laden to control the al Qaeda terrorists. In Arafat’s Ramallah compound, Israeli forces have found anti-tank weapons, which were explicitly banned under the Oslo accords. In addition, the military has recovered documents that demonstrate the PA directly funds the suicide bombing campaign and was behind the recent Karine A weapons shipment...
...first phase of his West Bank offensive, but its fallout will shake up the region for months to come - and imperil U.S. efforts to rekindle a peace process. Israel withdrew its tanks to the edge of more Palestinian towns Monday, although it maintained its sieges of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Israeli forces didn't fully leave the area; instead, they withdrew to self-declared buffer zones, from which they have continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude a cease-fire just...
...single determined 20-year-old. On Saturday Arafat finally met Powell's condition for a meeting by issuing a statement in Arabic "condemning strongly all the attacks which are targeting civilians on both sides." At the meeting Sunday, Powell saw Arafat for three hours at his bombed-out Ramallah compound. When Powell emerged--alone because Arafat, according to aides, feared Israeli snipers--the Secretary of State said, "We exchanged a variety of ideas and discussed steps on how we can move forward...
...home to a fiercely nationalist tradition and some of the Palestinians' most successful terrorists. When the tanks came two weeks ago, Jenin's fighters were surrounded and outgunned but not outfought. In a radio broadcast, Hamas vowed to fight to the death. With the Israeli army busy in Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank in late March, the Palestinians had nearly a week to organize a defense--on their own turf, on their own terms. The slope of the camp favored their position at the crest. And their bombmakers expertly set about the delicate task of making every alley...
...said Israel had "lost all moral ground" in the conflict. But U.S. President George W. Bush defended Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "man of peace," saying Israel was meeting a timetable to pull back from Palestinian territories. With the army still encircling West Bank towns, Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the U.N. Security Council reaffirmed a call for Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories and voted to send a fact-finding team to Jenin...