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...Through Arab banks with branches in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Saddam has funded cash payments of $10,000 apiece to families of each of the nearly 600 Palestinians killed in the Aqsa intifadeh. There are daily messages of thanks placed in Palestinian newspapers by the families of "martyrs," grateful for Baghdad's money, their homes plastered throughout the mourning period with posters of Saddam. At the funerals of the intifadeh dead, there are almost as many people carrying Iraqi flags as there are bearing the green flag of Hamas...
Palestinian sources say the Ba'athist Arab Liberation Front, funded by Saddam, is gaining strength, particularly in the northern West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus. The A.L.F. is under popular pressure to act in order to keep up with its rival, Hizballah, which is backed by Saddam's archenemy, Iran. Hizballah is making big new inroads in the West Bank with its tight organization and the roadside bombs. Palestinian and Israeli officials expect that it is only a matter of time before A.L.F. activists begin to fight--probably by shooting at Israeli settlers on isolated West Bank roads. Even...
TIME.com: Iraq has shot down an unmanned U.S. spy-plane policing the "no-fly" zone. A decade after the Gulf War, the U.S. and Britain are keeping up the pressure on Iraq, but Saddam is fast rehabilitating himself in the eyes of his Arab neighbors on whom the Gulf War coalition depended. Where is all this going...
...that American policy is completely wrong; it's just that it's a very difficult situation. It's easier to make plans and wish lists than it is to execute them, particularly since it's not a bilateral U.S.-Iraq conflict. It's a multilateral conflict, involving Arab states that are allies of the U.S. but are also friendly to Iraq, as well as European powers and Russia are major players in this conflict but have a different approach from Washington. So containing and trying to get rid of Saddam is easier said than done...
...Arabs have all but given up interest in sanctions. As long as the intifada rages and there is an Arab perception that America is on Israel's side, it is hard for any Arab government to wave the U.S. flag on Iraq. Not while their citizens charge every day that America is aiding the killing of Palestinians. Secretary of State Colin Powell was given a good hearing when he toured the region promoting "smart sanctions," but as long as the intifada continues it's hard for any government in the region to stick their necks...