Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: L'attentato suicida semina costernazione nell'estabilishment Palestinese, ma non fra i militanti

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/397068.html
Analysis: Bombing sows consternation in PA, Fatah 
By Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz Correspondent
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) Sunday
night said the bombing of Bus 14 in Jerusalem ran contrary to
Palestinian interests. "An attack like this gives Israel an excuse to
damage us and continue building the fence," Abu Ala said.
He was discussing how the timing of the attack - a day before the
International Court of Justice hearing on the legality of the West
Bank separation fence - was causing serious diplomatic damage to the
Palestinians. The PA's National Security Council had a similar
response.
After harshly condemning the attack, the security council decided at a
Ramallah meeting headed by Chairman Yasser Arafat to find those who
initiated the attack and bring them to justice as swiftly as possible.
The political consensus seemed to be that the attack, a day before the
Hague hearing, was a foolish action by Palestinian thugs lacking
discipline or understanding.
But that's not the view of the wider circle of Palestinian activists
in the political factions in the territories. One, describing himself
as a senior activist in the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades that
took responsibility for the attack, Sunday said he and other activists
didn't take the Hague process the least bit seriously.
Speaking anonymously with Palestinian reporters, he said: "Who cares
anyway about the decisions they'll make in The Hague? There are
hundreds of international decisions in favor of the Palestinians, and
how do they help? Who cares? No international decision is going to
remove the fence. Only we, in a struggle using force, will do that."
Such comments reflect the widespread feeling among militants of all
Palestinian factions who have no confidence in politicians or the PA's
public activists.
Members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades' Shahid [Martyr] Iman Samir Juda
Group, which said it carried out the attack, said what was important
to the group was "to punish the occupation powers for the massacre
they are carrying out among members of the Palestinian nation."
This time, the group carried out the attack in revenge for that
"massacre of the Sajaiya neighborhood" in the Gaza Strip two weeks
ago, in which 15 Palestinians were killed.
The group swears in its statement that there will be no massacre
without punishment and that it will not be silent even if the whole
world is silent.
Among the nationalist segments of the Palestinians who carry out and
initiate terror attacks, the differences between activists from Fatah,
Hamas and the leftist fronts were blurred long ago.
Groups of nationalist committees, which include members of different
Palestinian organizations, operate in a few places, especially the
Gaza Strip.
After the bloody events in Sajaiya, in which most of the wounded were
Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists, Hamas leaders told their people to
carry out revenge attacks immediately.
But the people who carried out the revenge attack weren't Hamas men
but Al-Aqsa men, who seemed in a hurry to respond to the Hamas call.
In this context, Sunday's attack generated considerable confusion in
the ranks of PA and Fatah leaders. People speaking in the name of the
Al-Aqsa Brigades first tried to disassociate themselves from the
operation, saying it wasn't Fatah that carried it out. But a short
time later, another announcement was released by Fatah, saying that
its members were in fact responsible for the attack.

 Analysis: Bombing sows consternation in PA, Fatah 
Ecco un'altro articolo sullo stesso argomento, questa volta di Amira
Hass.
Il problema sta tutto qua':  Aldila' dell'inenzione, o meno,
dell'Estabilishment Palestinese di "fermare il terrorismo", non
riusciranno
a farlo.  Perlomeno, non nel prossimo futuro.
Intanto perche' in realta' la strategia della lotta Palestinese non e'
sotto controllo di nessuno:  Quelli che protestano davanti al muro
(tanti), quelli che tirano sassi ai carri armati, e quelli che si
fanno
saltare in aria (pochi) NON lo fanno perche glie lo dice il comando
centrale.   Lo fanno perche, PER LORO, questa e' la strada migliore.
I pochi che si fanno saltare, e quelli che li appoggiano, si sono
fatti l'idea che la strada pacifica (proteste e negoziati) non ha
portato
da nessuna parte.    Forse il fatto che, oggi, ci sono meno attentati
significa che questi ultimi sono diminuiti in numero.   Vedremo a cosa
portera'
la protesta (quasi tutta non-violenta) attorno al muro.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/397945.html
What scared those who sent the bomber? 
By Amira Hass
Some express the following conclusion in all earnestness, others refer
to it sadly, as a theory - "it is incorrect to say the Palestinians
don't have a strategy of struggle and conflict, they have several
strategies."
The opinion refers in both aspects to the "strategy" demonstrated with
cynical cruelty last Sunday when bus No. 14 was blown up in another
Jerusalem suicide attack. Under the umbrella heading of a struggle
against Israeli occupation, several groups are operating in differing,
even contradictory ways. Each one swears it is the genuine arbiter of
Palestinian interests.
In civil and political activities, this sort of messy pluralism is
natural enough. Some groups emphasize the sacrosanct nature of the
right of return; others concentrate their efforts on the settlements;
some disseminate the Geneva Initiative; others demand the renewal of
calls for a one state solution as a tactical ploy to promote a two
state solution. The Palestinian leadership adds its own proliferation
of voices.
But when a number of groups scramble about and vie with one another to
claim pride of place under the heading "the armed struggle" a more
problematic dynamic swings into action - coercive, internal dictates
in Palestinian society masquerade behind the staged aura of heroism.
At present, as hearings proceed at the International Court of Justice
in the Hague, protest activity undertaken by Palestinian civil society
against the separation fence has reached its peak. Hundreds of
Palestinian activists who belong to non-government Palestinian and
international organizations, as well as Israeli activists, began 18
months ago to compile lists of the wrongs caused by the separation
fence being erected deep in Palestinian territory.
These efforts were not coordinated; they became more professional and
efficient as the annexationist character of the fence became evident.
They did not lose faith when their reports and claims were taken as
hyperbole and fabrication by Western listeners - who could believe
that the fence really would imprison people in enclaves and force them
to obtain residence permits to live in their homes.
The activists led groups of visitors on tours along the awful
fence/dreadful wall, though they were unable at first to stir
Palestinian Authority leaders, who sat placidly in Ramallah, or pique
their interest in what was happening on the western side of the West
Bank. When one Palestinian activist proposed to a senior political
figure that meetings ought to be held under the shadow of the fence to
rouse public interest in the topic, he responded with typical apathy -
"we are not a grass roots organization."
The activists didn't stop when residents from Qalqilyah, who are
surrounded by the wall and live in poverty and despair, hurled
accusations: "We've become a new Mecca. Everyone makes pilgrimages
here, but nothing changes." These are protest pioneers who created the
factual cornerstone for a new sort of struggle against the Israeli
conquest in the political, public and legal arena of The Hague.
But some young Palestinian, who believed perhaps that eternity in
paradise awaited him, and who certainly wanted to contribute his part
to the murder of Israeli citizens, almost managed to ruin the
prolonged, determined efforts undertaken by thousands of his
compatriots.
Possibly, he simply wasn't aware of the work they had done; possibly,
he simply didn't care about it; possibly he didn't connect the dots
between one thing and another; possibly personal circumstances of some
sort stirred within him the thirst for revenge.
The key question is not what were his own personal motives; instead,
it is what were the motives of the group that sent him to blow up the
bus in Jerusalem precisely at that moment, a day before the hearings
in The Hague. To what extent were these considered motives? To what
extent were they analytically obtuse considerations?
If this was, in fact, the exclusive work of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, or of one of its splinter groups which lacks the ideological
backbone of a national liberation organization - perhaps it is utterly
superfluous to attribute long-term thinking, and clear planning
ability to them.
But if this was an attack planned and pulled off by Hamas, as Israeli
intelligence officials claim, it can be described as being part of a
kind of "strategy." But precisely what sort of strategy? The very fact
that Hamas isn't taking responsibility for an act which it, perhaps,
carried out raises questions.
Did those who planned this terror attack deliberately want to
undermine the Palestinian-Israeli civil rebellion against Israel's
conquest? Islamic organizations are not in the habit of taking part in
symbolic protests against the conquest. Laden within such activity (in
which many Fatah members take part) is support for the two state
solution.
Activity in a civil struggle, in contrast to the use of arms, involves
all strata of society, and even creates areas of contact between
Palestinians and Israelis. Popular, wide-scale activity stirs a form
of hope in this world, and dulls the sort of fatalistic faith in the
world to come which makes it easier for young Palestinians to agree to
carry out suicide missions. Perhaps that is what frightened those who
carried out the last terror strike in Jerusalem, on the eve of the
hearings in The Hague?