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...Roll Into Nablus - Again As CIA Director George Tenet left Washington for the Middle East to discuss the prospects for renewed Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, Israeli forces moved back into Nablus and Qalqilya. Among those arrested in the West Bank raids was Issam Abu Bakr, a senior official of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization in Nablus. Troops went from house to house in the Balata refugee camp, a main base of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, responsible for a recent suicide bombing near Tel Aviv in which two Israelis were killed. ITALY Mamma Mafia Two carloads of gangsters sped through...
...favorite U.S. auteur, showed up to say he loved the French and commended them for voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever Palestinian film in competition: Elia Suleiman's monstrously witty Divine Intervention, in which a balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats across an Israeli military checkpoint, and a Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went...
...Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, is trying desperately to get back in the game. While Ariel Sharon's siege may have failed to render the Palestinian leader "irrelevant," Arafat's newfound freedom may, ironically, have done the job. Arafat denounced the Petah Tikvah bombing, as he has done in response to a number of recent attacks inside Israel - PA leaders even refer to these attacks as "terrorist operations." But that has done nothing to stop a relentless stream of Palestinian youths from turning themselves into human bombs...
Last week Yasser Arafat made an effort to assuage concerns about his rule within the Palestinian Authority by announcing that he wants to hold overdue elections by year's end and signing a two-year-old bill guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary. But for a growing number of people within his organization, it's too little too late. Palestinian Authority members are haggling over reforms that include a plan to shift Arafat to a symbolic role as President. Senior Palestinian officials tell TIME that the shake-up would install Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas--an Arafat ally...
...support for the Americans in Afghanistan by channeling the extremists' energies towards India. But even if he were doing his level best to stop such attacks, Pakistan's militant Islamists may well learn from the experience of their Palestinian cousins. Hamas and Islamic Jihad long ago learned that attacking Yasser Arafat directly would earn them the ire of the Palestinian people, and that the best way to challenge Arafat was to launch terror attacks against the common enemy - that way they could simultaneously undermine Arafat's negotiating strategy and maintain popular support. In Pakistan, too, elements (which may include military...