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There’s always meant to be another exam or extracurricular activity to demand our attention, and admitting that we regularly watch Survivor or The Sharon Osbourne Show shatters that illusion. It’s allegedly a disservice to ourselves for not working harder, as well an affront to all those other students who might—call a doctor—start to wonder whether they’re structuring their lives correctly...
...time being, the strike against Yassin has pushed these matters aside and returned the focus of Hamas' wrath to its true enemy. Whatever possibilities were percolating of Hamas considering a peaceful solution have been overwhelmed by the movement's declaration of "open war." The Sharon government too is consumed by the idea that might can prevail. When I asked Rantisi, the new leader of Hamas, whether he would accept a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, he all but dismissed the notion. "Negotiations," he said, "never achieved anything in favor of the Palestinians." What continues to sustain Hamas...
...Neither Bush nor Sharon nor sizable popular majorities in both their countries think so. "All of Hamas' welfare and sermons and education and health care has one aim," says Kupperwasser, the Israeli intelligence analyst, "to make people ready to participate in terrorist acts. As long as they convince Palestinians to look at suicide bombers as heroes and martyrs, instead of the roadblock to peace, Hamas is going to be successful." And at the moment, Hamas' power is unchallenged. Both Americans and Israelis believe that Arafat's downtrodden Palestinian Authority has the means to dismantle Hamas but not the will, whereas...
...people. You can't fight them without fighting your brothers." Some Gazans love Hamas, others fear it. But potentially all contribute to a kind of "popular army" ready to take up stones or rifles to protect Hamas should the Palestinian Authority go gunning for them. Ajez for one thinks Sharon is trying to egg on such a battle: "Israel wants us to kill each other. Then who will they need to negotiate with?" He, for one, says he will not get involved. "I will go sit with my wife and tell the Prime Minister, 'You take a weapon and fight...
Israel says the distinction Hamas makes between its political and military wings is fictitious. And Sharon's aggressive campaign of assassination, targeting Hamas from top to bottom, including the formerly immune political figures, has altered Hamas' behavior. Militants, for example, have stopped going to the hospital when a confrere is injured because Israel will monitor the place to pick up their trails. Unable to use phones or cars, they communicate by encrypted e-mail or in hurried personal rendezvous. The impact on Hamas' public leaders has been even more dramatic. Last September, al-Zahar's house was flattened...