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...deaths as disputes over land and water rights turned violent. In central Nasarawa state, clashes over fishing access to a local lake left up to 100 dead and eight villages in ruins. On the Cameroon border, at least 50 people died following a dispute between indigenous farmers and settler tribesmen over grazing land. And in another incident of political feuding, a senior aide to Nigeria's top judge was found dead, two weeks after the unsolved murder of Justice Minister Bola...
...occupation." Whenever Hamas' unyielding violence has challenged Arafat too hard, he has cracked down. He arrested hundreds of militants and removed firebrand Hamas preachers from their mosques in 1996, after a torrent of suicide bombings nearly undid the Oslo accords. When Hamas militants car-bombed a bus filled with settler schoolchildren in 1998, setting off another crisis with Israel, Arafat put Yassin under house arrest. Both times, though, Hamas' popular support was at a low ebb among Palestinians who believed peace negotiations would prove fruitful...
...Israel’s hopes lie in the Labor Party, which is currently in disarray and unlikely to win the next election. A more likely successor to Sharon is former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is making a political comeback with the support of Israel’s fanatical settler movement. It is hard to believe that Sharon could be more moderate than anyone, but Netanyahu has forged new ground on the Israeli right. If Netanyahu comes to power—especially if he comes to power on the backs of the most right-wing elements in Israeli society?...
...West Bank and Gaza are not Lebanon. The Palestinian territories are entirely surrounded by Israeli forces, meaning that unlike Hezbollah, the Palestinians have no easy access to heavy weaponry. And the Israelis had no emotional attachments to Lebanon, whereas the West Bank is home to a politically powerful settler constituency and includes East Jerusalem - it's harder to imagine Israel leaving (although perhaps marginally easier in Gaza, which is nobody's idea of a promised land). On the other hand, there have already been signs that Syria is attempting to send rockets and other heavy weapons by sea to Gaza...
...continue to fight over his grave. The ancient West Bank city of Hebron, where according to tradition the Biblical prophet is buried, has long been an epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In 1929, the massacre of 67 Jews destroyed its tiny historic Jewish community. But four decades, later Jewish settlers began moving into Hebron after its capture by Israel. In 1994, a lone Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a local mosque. The Palestinian Authority took control of 80 percent of the city in 1997, although a small settler presence remained in the center of town. Thus today...