Word: terrorized
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...verge of collapse. Hamas and Islamic Jihad stated the obvious the previous day in announcing that their truce with Israel is dead, and with it may go the government of Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian prime minister has been reduced to an impotent spectator by the resumption of hostilities - a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 20 Israelis, followed by the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, with both sides vowing more. No longer content to indulge Abbas's efforts to deal with the militant groups by negotiation and consensus, Israel has resumed direct military activity in Palestinian...
...that he had neither the political support nor the security muscle to pursue that option. Instead, he hoped that the truce would bring an easing of Palestinian life in the territories, which would create popular pressure on the militants to maintain it, and he could slowly begin to dismantle terror cells while drawing Hamas and Islamic Jihad into the political structures of the Palestinan Authority...
...likely take the new upsurge as a cue to resume attacks both inside Israel and on the settler population in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians claim they're simply avenging Israeli attacks on their leaders; the Israelis insist they're targeting key leaders in self-defense against terror plots. The resulting resurgence in violence leaves Abbas isolated in a political no-man's-land...
...decision by Hamas and others to relaunch major terror operations inside Israel was not simply a bypassing of Abbas; it was a vote of no-confidence in the Palestinian prime minister. The militants had agreed to the "hudna" in the expectation that the quid-pro-quo would be the release of the 6,000 Palestinian militants currently in Israeli prisons, an end to Israel's attacks on their leadership, and an end to many of the restrictions that have strangled Palestinian economic life in the West Bank and Gaza. In the event, few of their demands were satisfied - as many...
...There is little chance, of course, of the insurgents putting the U.S. to flight by ambushes, terror strikes and sabotage. Their objective, right now, however, may simply be to disrupt plans for a transition to Iraqi rule under U.S. tutelage by next fall. The Bush administration is committed to staying the course in Iraq, and will certainly not be deterred by terror strikes - after all, the war on terrorism is the reason it went into Iraq in the first place. But the latest wave of attacks suggests the price of honoring that commitment may be rising...