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...single suicide bomber Wednesday reminded the world that a new Palestinian prime minister, a U.S.-backed "roadmap" to peace and recent dovish statements from the Israelis are simply the new packaging on a familiar stalemate. The bomber, reportedly sent by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, killed three Israelis and wounded scores of other in a Tel Aviv attack timed to mock new Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas's promise, in a speech only hours earlier, to fight terrorism and disarm the likes of Hamas and the Al-Aqsa brigades...
...Jamil Hamad: By my calculation, he's unlikely to succeed, because he faces too much opposition. He has a problem inside Fatah, his own organization. If he's going to dissolve the militias, he has to begin with the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. Dismantling that would send a message to Hamas and the other Islamists that he's serious. But he hasn't said how he intends to go about dismantling the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, or any other group...
...enthusiasm among Palestinian legislators for his autocratic rule than with some of the key political issues that divide Arafat from his challenger. Abu Mazen has made clear that he intends to put Palestinian security services to work disarming the various unofficial militias, such as the Fatah-based Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, and also to clamp down on the militant Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Arafat opposes the idea of confronting the militants, for fear that this could lead to a Palestinian civil war. But Abu Mazen has long maintained that the armed intifada is a dead...
...evening last summer I was chatting in a bar in Crete with a doctor from Tel Aviv, who was on vacation with his family. We talked about the Palestinian friends he hadn't seen since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh, his missions as a reservist in the Israeli army. I asked him how long he was staying in Crete. Just a few days, he said, then added wistfully, "Sometimes we just have to get away...
...shoot at my soldiers and get away with it." If the surrounding houses are damaged, Tibon believes that Palestinian residents will press the gunmen not to attack from there again. Tibon says the message is getting through; he insists that Palestinians are losing patience with Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the militants behind the attacks. If it wasn't for the guns and the bombs of those groups, he points out, there'd be no curfew and the 20,000 men who used to work in Israel could return to employment. Building such murmurs into real pressure...