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...recent assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi serves to highlight the incredible disparity between Arafat’s public statements and the actions of Palestinian groups on the ground. Following intense pressure from Israel, and probably from his own advisors, to consolidate his power and control his people, Arafat declared any group disobeying him to be illegal. Should he elect to follow through on this threat, Arafat may find himself facing the frightening prospect of a civil war in the occupied territories...
...course the argument isn’t one-sided; it never is. Palestinian acts of terror in past years, including the assassination of Israeli politician Rehavam Ze’evi last Tuesday, are reprehensible. Americans now know the fear in which Israelis live on a daily basis. Israel has not known a single act so terrible as that which occurred Sept. 11, but the constant, omnipresent fear of a lone man in a marketplace killing himself to annihilate anyone nearby may be even more terrifying...
...between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres in Washington. After the meeting, Peres reiterated Israel's insistence that it will remain in six Palestinian towns until Yasser Arafat agrees to hand over the gunmen responsible for last week's assassination of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi, while Powell's spokesman repeated Washington's call for an immediate withdrawal and once again warned that the Israeli presence in those towns contributed to an escalation of violence. But the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel will cut short its current military operation in Palestinian towns, "following pressure...
Tuesday’s assassination of Rehavam “Gandhi” Ze’evi, the minister of tourism in the Israeli parliament, by Palestinian gunmen might prompt an ambivalent response from those who care deeply about the violence in the Middle East. Over the past year, Israel has operated a policy of locating Palestinian leaders whom they have linked with terrorist activity within Israel and killing them with surgical missile strikes on their homes and cars. Dozens of Palestinian leaders, as well as some bystanders, have been killed in such strikes...
...Yasser Arafat has begun arresting members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was responsible for the assassination earlier this week of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi. Will this provoke a showdown between Arafat and the PFLP and other radical elements in the West Bank and Gaza...