Runaway Cycle of Violence Between Israel and Palestine
"'Mission Impossible': No U.N. Vote on the Middle East" - CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/13/mideast.crisis/index.html
"Who would succeed Yassir Arafat?" - The London Times
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,8-2001561805,00.html
"Israeli Troops Kill Eight Palestinians" - Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-israel-palestinians1214dec14.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines
"Special Report: Israel and the Middle East" - The Guardian [RealMedia]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/0,2759,377264,00.html
Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre
http://www.jmcc.org/
Israel Insider Security Incident Map - Israel Insider
http://www.israelinsider.com/flash/maps/fullpage/index.htm
"Middle East Showdown" - CBC [RealMedia]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/mideast_showdown/
"Death Wish in the Holy Land" - The Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0150/vest.php
Although unrest on the Gaza strip is nothing new, this week some striking events unfolded. Israel severed communication with the Palestinian Authority President Yassir Arafat Thursday morning, declaring him "irrelevant," then unleashed a string of attacks on Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza strip throughout the day Thursday. Early Friday morning, Israeli troops raided four Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, killing seven Palestinians in gunbattles and arresting dozens of suspected militants. Another development on Friday was the pullout of American envoy Anthony Zinni, who had been in the region to negotiate a truce. The continuing violence is part of a heated cycle of attack and retaliation that began when Palestinian suicide bombers killed 25 Israelis in Jerusalem and Haifa the first weekend of December.

The latest articles on the crisis include a CNN report on the United Nations response to a Palestinian-backed resolution calling for international observers in the Middle East, the London Times's brief profiles of possible successors to Arafat, and an AP report on Friday's violence.
Britain's Guardian Unlimited provides a special in-depth feature on the Middle East including the latest news reports and a news archive, interactive historical guides (Flash), audio reports (RealMedia), commentary from editors and readers, and much more. The Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre Website is overseen by a group of Palestinian journalists and researchers and it provides information on events in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel Insider, the daily news magazine of Israel, provides a map and timeline of attacks from both sides. Another in-depth feature comes from the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), providing extensive audio and video. The Village Voice has an editorial feature dealing with the question of assassination of either Arafat or Sharon by their enemies. [HCS]
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