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...sent by Islamic Jihad pulled his car alongside a bus loaded with Israeli passengers there, and detonated a bomb that turned it instantly into a flaming hulk, killing 16 aboard. Israel retaliated by sending tanks back into the West Bank city of Jenin and the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Hours later they left, after blowing up three buildings in the compound. And while it may be premature to interpret the Megiddo attack as the opening volley of an Armageddon, the carnage there, and the response it triggered, serves as a sharp reminder that the violent impasse that forced...
...security crisis in Israel and the West Bank and a new siege of Ramallah. So instead of the diplomatic and security progress Washington had hoped for, the White House finds itself confronting d?j? vu. Israelis are being terrorized by suicide bombers, Palestinian towns are occupied by Israeli armor, and Yasser Arafat is under siege in Ramallah. President Bush had been expected to outline a more detailed U.S. vision of the road to peace after meeting with Mubarak and Sharon. And you wouldn't want to be his speechwriter right...
Three Palestinian judges on Monday proved the independence of the Palestinian judiciary - and in the process deepened the political crisis facing Yasser Arafat. But the Gaza high court ruling ordering the release of radical Palestinian leader Ahmed Saadat also posed some uncomfortable questions about the Bush administration's efforts to reform the Palestinian Authority, and its broader strategy. Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has been in a Palestinian prison in Jericho since April. He was imprisoned under U.S. and British supervision as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement to end Israel's siege...
...times a whimsical depiction of little wars (neighbors tossing garbage on each other's lawns), the movie escalates to fire bombs in residences and comic battles at Israeli checkpoints. A balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats above the soldiers; a Palestinian ninja babe beats the enemy with her Yeoh-worthy maneuvers. With its smart humor, as dry as the Negev, this is a film that might raise a chuckle even from Ariel Sharon. Give irony a chance...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been free from the Israeli siege on his headquarters for one month - long enough, arguably, to demonstrate whether he is sincere this time about cracking down on Palestinian terrorists. In the current environment, though, it seems Arafat's desires, whatever they may be, are not enough. His security forces were so battered by recent Israeli military incursions that they are almost completely ineffectual, according to Arafat's senior aides. "Our capability is zero," Jibril Rajoub, head of preventive security in the West Bank, told Time. "Our motivation also is zero." In today's climate, Palestinian...