Word: stranglehold
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...growing despair on both sides. Moves to negotiate a new truce with the Palestinian Authority (PA) suggest Israel's recognition of the failure of its military actions to end terror attacks. And for Palestinian negotiators the idea of restoring security cooperation with Israel even while its troops maintain a stranglehold over the West Bank is an admission of how few cards they hold. But divisions in both camps - and in the Bush administration, whose active involvement the plan will require - suggest that the current talks may turn out to be little more than another false start...
...Hebrew University bombing served as a grisly reminder that Israelis remain vulnerable to terror attacks despite their army's 40-day stranglehold on most of the cities in the West Bank. The interludes of calm achieved by the reoccupation of the West Bank have proved short-lived, and the past two weeks have seen the tide of violence rising rapidly. Almost daily shootings in the West Bank and Gaza have been accompanied by at least a dozen bombing attempts over the past week, and Israeli security services say they've counted at least 60 attacks currently in the making...
...impoverished residents of the reoccupied sections of the West Bank. But maintaining the iron grip may ultimately prove to be self-defeating: Israel had planned to ease the burden of its reoccupation of West Bank towns out of recognition that the rage and despair fueled by its stranglehold over Palestinian daily life fuels sustains, rather than discourages terrorism. An Israeli officer in Nablus last week told Haaretz that the reason it was necessary to ease the siege of the Palestinian city was that "We don't want suicide bombing to become the residents' only source of income" - reference to cash...
...cabinet, it appears that the political coalition on which it will be based will be exactly the same as the current one. On the ground, ordinary Palestinians are less concerned with the composition of Arafat's cabinet than with the impact of Israel's continuing economic stranglehold and military operations. And on the Israeli side, too, the signs are that nobody's holding their breath for the outcome of the Bush administration's efforts. The ongoing deployment of Israeli troops in what were once off-limits Palestinian towns have become so routine that the Israeli military now refers to them...
...sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region to take over where U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni had failed, in trying to arrange peace negotiations. Though it gave a positive response to Bush's new intervention and allowed Zinni to visit Arafat at his headquarters, Israel kept its stranglehold on the West Bank towns...