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...Jallah to counter gunfire on an adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last Friday, following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people in Jerusalem, Israel had seized control of Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday that these actions were the price of Yasser Arafat's failure to rein in suicide bombers. The Palestinians greeted them as a declaration of war. And the United States urged restraint on both sides...
Salim's family were refugees from a village near Acre; he grew up in the dusty Ain refugee camp on the edge of Nablus. Arrested by Israel for the first time in 1975, he was jailed seven times in all and deported for a year to Lebanon. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat jailed him twice more during the times that Hamas radicals were subject to frequent roundups. For the last four years of his life, Salim, a popular teacher of religion at an Islamic school, never left Nablus. Colleagues on the National and Islamic Committee, a collection of Palestinian factions that...
...expected that Israel will strike at Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which has declined to arrest the militant Islamists accused of organizing terror attacks. And Israel will also step up its track-and-kill policy of systematically eliminating those militants. But such tactics have, so far, failed to put an end to Palestinian attacks - and there's little reason to believe they will now. One of the reasons Arafat has failed to act against the Islamists is because of the overwhelming approval of their actions on the Palestinian streets, which together with mounting hostility to Arafat's own administration makes...
...Israel, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and George W. Bush are reluctant companions in a drifting rowboat that's picking up speed. But while the alarming acceleration of the cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence endangers the political interests of all three, they appear unable to stop the drift back into the vortex...
...Israel's latest attack follows Monday's air strike on Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza and an explosion that killed six militants of Yasser Arafat's own Fatah organization - a blast Palestinians blame on Israel, but Israelis and some Western reporters suggest may have been the result of the detonation of a bomb they had been building. On a day that saw a number of shooting incidents in the West Bank and Gaza, Israel also tightened its blockade of Palestinian territories in what it called a preemptive action against terror attacks. The latest Israeli actions follow two attempted bombing attacks...