Word: intifadehs
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...Challenge No. 1: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington needs the help of friendly Arab governments, like those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. But America's allies are upset by U.S. acquiescence in what they see as Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in the 16-month-old Aqsa intifadeh. The U.S. will try to calm the conflict, but overt cooperation with Arab states will not be easy as long as Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza continues...
...street clashes of the three-month-long Aqsa intifadeh are slowing for now, as Palestinian negotiators sweat through peace talks with Israeli and U.S. officials. But on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a dirty counterpart to the intifadeh is gathering pace, marked by deceit, ambush and death. In the past two months, Israeli special units have assassinated at least 13 Palestinians like Abu Sway who they believe were involved in attacks against Israel. And Palestinian traitor hunters are also taking a toll. Men like Shahine, accused of collaboration in those attacks, also face death, either...
...Arafat wasn't. Today, Barak has calculated that he can't win re-election unless he has a peace agreement, so he's willing to make more concessions. Believing Arafat now has to show his people some results for the heavy price they've paid during the Aqsa intifadeh, Washington hopes he sees this as his best chance for quick international recognition of the Palestinian state he craves...
These are the deaths that keep Dr. Abdel Razq Masry awake each night. The only pathologist in the Gaza Strip, Masry records each of the intifadeh's victims. On Dec. 2, he went early in the morning to the morgue at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Laid out on the stainless-steel dissecting table was the small body of Mohammed Arja. Masry looked at the records sent up from Rafah, the town on the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt where Arja had been shot the previous day. The boy was 11. "I was angry as hell," Masry says...
These snipers are the linchpin of Israel's military strategy in the Aqsa intifadeh. After the violent Hasmonean Tunnel riots of September 1996, started when Israel opened a tunnel near the golden Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the army decided to prepare for an even more terrible outbreak. Major General Giora Eiland, head of the army's operations division, was at the heart of this planning. A former commander of the Givati Brigade, Eiland insisted a few years back on buying the M-16A3 for the army, though most other generals didn...