Word: spats
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...wasn't acting more aggressively. They argued that the strictures Israel continues to place on Palestinians, preventing free movement between Palestinian cities and access to jobs in Israel, create a climate in which it is politically dicey for Arafat to do Israel's bidding. Last week Palestinians spat on Arafat's policemen when they came to arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists. In Gaza's Zeitoun neighborhood, police put Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin under house arrest and then had to deal with two days of riots. One young Hamas supporter died from a wound sustained in a clash...
...believe that now. So on the street, last week, Hamas showed off its power. In more than one case, supporters faced down Arafat's police when they came to make arrests. Neighbors in Bethlehem's Deheisha refugee camp spat at Palestinian Authority troops who tried to pick up Issa Marzook, a Hamas activist and correspondent for Hizballah TV, as a throng ganged around them shouting "Spies! Collaborators! Dogs!" The police retreated without Marzook. Says an Arafat aide: "Hamas is a political power and not a security threat only." Hamas officials voice their defiance. "Arafat is the chairman, but we shall...
...generation of young men has its own battle scars to avenge. A friend named Hassan offers that while Osama Bahar was in prison, Israeli interrogators hung him by his arms from the ceiling, spat in his face and mocked Islam. (Israeli authorities had no comment.) Says Hassan: "He always said he would avenge the mistreatment." In the case of grudges like that, a beard is optional...
...Wittgenstein's Poker (Ecco; 340 pages; $24), the British journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow exhaustively investigate the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident. Popper says Wittgenstein lost his cool; others disagree. But it's not just another senior-common-room spat. For Edmonds and Eidinow the altercation is a jumping-off point: they write around it in vast, widening concentric circles, sketching in its complex social and intellectual context...
...resumption of negotiations and advocate guerrilla war. Still, Israeli public opinion right now is far closer to Sharon's take on Araft than to that of Peres. All of which is bad news for Washington, but which may give bin Laden reason to smile. Then again, an open spat with Israel over its actions against Palestinians won't harm Bush's credibility with his Arab allies...