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...Four Palestinian militants wanted for the killing of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi have been tried and convicted by a military court - inside Yasser Arafat?s besieged Ramallah compound. One of them was even sentenced to 18 years hard labor, and there?s certainly no shortage of manual work to do in the ruins of Ramallah. Unimpressed by the proceedings, Israel continues to demand their extradition, although the Palestinian Authority insists that under the Oslo agreements it is the proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused...
...Palestine, has been in a Palestinian prison in Jericho since April. He was imprisoned under U.S. and British supervision as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement to end Israel's siege of Arafat's Ramallah compound. Israel accuses Saadat of masterminding the assassination of right-wing Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi last year, but the PA court ordered his release on the grounds that no evidence had been presented against Saadat, and no legal proceedings conducted. Arafat had arrested Saadat not for legal reasons, but in order to satisfy the Israeli and American demand that he clamp down on Israel...
...some of whom were trying to hide in the Muqata'a. (The Muqata'a is not unknown to the Israelis; it served as their military headquarters in Ramallah until the army withdrew in 1995.) The Israelis were especially intent on finding two of the suspected killers of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi, who was assassinated in a Jerusalem hotel in October...
...summit of Arab leaders in Beirut later this month so that he can show he remains relevant on the world stage. But since December, the Israelis have kept him pinned inside the West Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the arrest of all suspects in the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. With the detention of the final fugitive, Majdi Rimawi, Sharon has lost much of his justification for confining Arafat to Ramallah, but he will have to convince right-wingers in his Cabinet before lifting the blockade...
Sharon's travails deepened just as Arafat showed signs of crawling out of the international doghouse. Arafat ordered the arrests of three Palestinian militants involved in last October's assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, which Israel had demanded as a condition for lifting Arafat's travel restrictions. The Bush Administration maintained its criticism that Arafat is not doing more to halt terrorism, but the U.S. also toughened its rhetoric against Israel for killing civilians and attacking Palestinian security forces. "If you take away the instruments of the Palestinian Authority," a senior State Department official says, "you have chaos...