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...Bidya is once more a microcosm of what is being planned by the politicians. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's advisers are sketching out "unilateral separation," which they will impose on the Palestinians if Yasser Arafat declares statehood, something that could happen as soon as this month. That means choking off the Palestinian economy from Israeli oxygen. "Separation is economic war," says Helo. "It is a war of hunger, and it is very dangerous...
...have been better. Hours after Israel and the Palestinian Authority began taking tentative steps toward implementing a cease-fire agreement, terrorists detonated a car bomb in a crowded Jerusalem market, killing two Israelis and injuring nine others. The attack dramatically increases the strain on the agreement reached by Yasser Arafat and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres late Wednesday to implement the stillborn Sharm el Sheik agreement brokered three weeks ago by President Clinton. And that may have been its precise intention: The Islamic Jihad organization, which has rejected the peace process from the get-go, claimed responsibility...
...moves mostly designed for domestic consumption, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat are burning the almost completely collapsed bridges that lead back to the peace process. Israeli helicopters launched new rocket attacks on Palestinian Authority buildings in the West Bank and Gaza overnight, making good on warnings by the Israeli defense minister that Israel plans to ratchet up its level of force in dealing with what he described as "guerrilla warfare" by the Palestinians. And Arafat responded that the raids could not "shake one eyelash from the eyelashes of a Palestinian child holding a Palestinian stone to defend holy Jerusalem...
...Yasser Arafat and his urbane negotiators are not the Palestinians who waged the last intifada - and that fact may be a key to understanding the inner workings of the current uprising. While it's widely recognized that Arafat may not be able to stop the current rebellion even if he chose to, what's less commonly recognized is that this is not simply because the next generation of intifada-ists who have taken up the stones of their older siblings will be disinclined to accept the old man's leadership. Every popular uprising, after all, has a leadership...
...Fast forward three years to the implementation of the Oslo Accord, and Yasser Arafat comes home, bringing with him a leadership corps from exile and setting up the Palestinian Authority as envisaged by the accord. But the top positions in Arafat's administration all went to returning exiles and Arafat cronies, while the local leaders who'd earned their stripes and scars in the heat of the intifada, and often did time in jail for it, were mostly overlooked or incorporated in subordinate roles in the Palestinian Authority. In many cases, it is those same shunned local leaders...