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...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 who has recently been critical of him in private--as Prime Minister, responsible for creating an accountable administration. Among other proposed reforms: folding Arafat's nine security organizations into one police service. The hope among U.S. officials is that greater democracy will diminish the power...
...Israeli authorities knew all about Jenin, and they knew those in the camp they wanted to take out. Their top target was Mahmoud Tawalbe, a 23-year-old father of two who worked in a record store but also headed the local Islamic Jihad cell. Tawalbe had launched numerous attacks against Israelis, including a shooting last October that killed four Israeli women on the main street of Hadera, a town north of Tel Aviv. Last July, Tawalbe had dispatched his 19-year-old brother Murad on a suicide mission to Haifa. (Murad lost his nerve and surrendered to Israeli police...
...Palestinians who died were so innocent. The man the Israelis most wanted to find in Jenin, Mahmoud Tawalbe, took a quick break from the fighting on Day 7 to visit his mother Tuffahah and his brother Ahmed. Ahmed told TIME Mahmoud looked pleased with his work: camp lore holds that Mahmoud killed 13 Israelis in the fighting. He and his crew of about 50 Islamic Jihad fighters were hitting the Israelis hard. On Day 6, two more Israeli soldiers had been slain. "Don't worry about me," Mahmoud told his mother. "I feel strong...
Judd B. Kessler ’04, Jasmine J. Mahmoud...
...political process can end the murderous machinations of the extremist segment within the Arab world that seeks Israel’s destruction. Israel can cut a deal with moderates who respect its right to exist, but Palestinian terrorists will never accept compromise. Witness the bone-chilling words of Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas leader, as quoted in the New York Times: “From our ideological point of view, it is not allowed to recognize that Israel controls one square meter of historic Palestine...