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Politics : War

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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (7551)10/24/2001 7:00:45 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
The funeral of one of the three killed Fatah fighters, Atef Abayat, was as much a protest against the PA as an act of defiance against the Israeli invasion. Thirty thousand Palestinians joined Mr Abayat’s cortege.






Squeezed between the Israeli assault and the rebelliousness of his own people, Mr Arafat is powerless to impose a ceasefire. All he has been able to do is to make gestures:

...If things stay that way, most Palestinians are sure the days of Mr Arafat’s authority—personal and institutional—can be measured by the distance separating Israeli tanks from his various “presidential” headquarters in Ramallah and Bethlehem: not long at all.

economist.com

PS Now how about US/Europe supporting Hamas dominated PLO?
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