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...Israel suspended military action against the PA on Wednesday to give Arafat 12 hours to arrest a list of 36 terror-accused supplied by Israel. That follows Tuesday's withering barrage against targets associated with Arafat, which destroyed his helicopters in Gaza and a building adjacent to his Ramallah office. But despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic...
...last letters Mustafa Zibri wrote from his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah was to fellow leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "Unless we contribute militarily to the intifadeh," the P.F.L.P. chief wrote, "we will be marginalized and nobody will mention our name." Soon after, Zibri died in a helicopter rocket attack by Israel, which blamed him for a string of car bombs in the yearlong Palestinian uprising called the Aqsa intifadeh. Once the Muslim mourning period for Zibri ended last week, the P.F.L.P.'s military wing took its revenge in an unprecedented attack...
Shurfeh. Both men live in Ramallah and have gone underground since the assassination. "They're living on borrowed time," says an Israeli intelligence officer. So are hopes for peace...
...When Israel tries to nab suspects with a larger force, it doesn't look so good from Washington's viewpoint. In fact, it looks little different from the big operations in the major Palestinian towns. Israel sent tanks and troops to the village of Beit Rima, north of Ramallah, last week, because it believed one of Ze'evi's killers may have taken refuge with his relatives there. Palestinian gunmen resisted and five were killed. In the end, neither of the two assassins still on the run were found. At least one of them fled to Bethlehem, the Shin...
...Ignoring Tuesday's calls from Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, Sharon issued a polite "only when we're ready to" reply. Then he launched another raid on a West Bank village near Ramallah, in which 10 Palestinians were reportedly killed...