Word: intifadas
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...have not only been ignored, they've been openly challenged. He may be reluctant to risk further diminishing his power by trying to rein in Palestinian militants in the absence of any tangible gains from the sacrifices ordinary Palestinians have been forced to make as a result of the intifada he initiated last October. So the Israelis have plenty of reason to ask just how the proposed cease-fire is going to stop Palestinian attacks...
...Both sides, then, may be more inclined to allow the conflict to simmer, in the hope that the process of attrition will wear down the other side. But that doesn't work for Israel's moderate Arab neighbors, for whom the ongoing intifada poses a domestic political crisis, nor for Washington, whose overriding concern is regional stability. And that may be what brought Peres to Washington this week. But while his discussions in Washington were over cease-fire terms - on the ground in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza - nobody, right now, is talking seriously about peace...
...they've made it abundantly clear they have no interest in observing any cease-fire agreement. Even more alarming, though, may be the open defiance of Arafat being displayed by his own Fatah movement, whose armed Tanzim militiamen have fought running gun battles with the Israelis throughout the current intifada. Last weekend, for example, Arafat ordered the disbanding of local "Popular Resistance Committees" set up throughout the West Bank and Gaza to coordinate the armed activities of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groupings. But Palestinian sources tell TIME that Fatah leaders such as Marwan Barghouti have rejected Arafat...
...just in the ranks of his own movement that Arafat is facing an increasingly open challenge. Having roused the Palestinian street for an intifada that demanded they put their children and livelihoods on the line in the quest for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Arafat will struggle to persuade ordinary Palestinians that anything has been achieved that would warrant him calling off the uprising...
...demonstrate that it can still do more than put on a defiant show at the funerals of its "martyrs," Hamas fired a series of 82-mm mortars on the Israeli town of Sderot. "We have to prove ourselves," the Hamas military-wing officer tells TIME. Early in the intifada, Palestinian and Israeli security officials say, Arafat freed Hamas fighters from his jails and gave them a green light to bomb Israeli towns. An agent in Arafat's General Intelligence was suspended in December when he tried to arrest a Hamas cell in Gaza that was planning suicide bombings, according...