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 مروان البرغوثي...أخر القياديين الفلسطينين المحترمين
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إعتقلت أمس السلطات الإسرائلية مروان البرغوثي دينمو الإنتفاضة كما أطلقت عليه الصحافة العربية أو عقلها المدبر كما سمته الصحف الإسرائيلية، وهو بالفعل أحد القلائل الذين يحظون بالإحترام والإجماع عليه من بين جميع السياسيين الفلسطينين، وبلا شك أن إعتقاله خسارة كبيرة وندعو الله ألا تكون نهاية رجل شجاع.
Israel arrests intifada symbol as Powell mission hits new stumbling blocks
Marwan Barghuti
15-04-2002 21:02:13
Israel arrested a symbol of the intifada, who topped its wanted list and was considered a lieutenant of Yasser Arafat, with whom Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged it was not possible to make peace.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Colin Powell took his struggling ceasefire mission to Syria and Lebanon, where leaders told him his fragile peace bid hinged on an Israeli withdrawal.
Sharon told CNN his troops could leave reoccupied West Bank areas within a week, but stressed Israeli forces could stay longer in Ramallah, where the Palestinian leader is pinned down, and in Bethlehem, where a tense standoff with 200 armed Palestinians continued.
Meanwhile, the Jenin refugee camp, which saw the most ferocious fighting of Israel's 18-day-old offensive, was compared by humanitarian aid workers to a "quake zone," amid ongoing controversy over the number of Palestinians who died there.
Marwan Barghuti, often called the voice of the intifada and seen as a natural successor to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was captured by the Israeli army in the West Bank town of Ramallah, his family said.
The Palestinians quickly warned Israel not to harm him.
In a fresh attempt to isolate Arafat, this time diplomatically, Sharon said in an interview with CNN: "You cannot reach peace with him."
He also took a swipe at Powell for bowing to Arab pressure and visitng Arafat in his bullet-ridden compound in Ramallah a day earlier.
"One must understand that, in order to have others to negotiate, it should be clear that Arafat is not, in the eyes of the Americans, the one that should lead negotiations or lead his nation," Sharon said.
His words sparked immediate Palestinian outrage, top negotiator Saeb Erakat accusing the former general of "playing and defying the president of the United States and the international community."
On day four of his floundering peace mission to the region, Powell travelled to Lebanon and Syria to urge them to rein in Iran- and Syria-backed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas who have attacked Israeli troops.
But instead Powell was greeted by thousands of protesters chanting "Death to America, Death to Israel," and Lebanese and Syrian leaders who insisted the Jewish state had to end its assault and pull back its troops.
"Israel bears the complete responsibility for the ongoing deterioration," said Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmud Hammud, after President Emile Lahoud held talks with Powell on a hastily arranged visit to Beirut.
Powell has been trying to hammer out an elusive ceasefire between the Palestinians and Sharon, who ordered the assault after a series of deadly suicide bombings inside his country.
Sharon has vowed that the army offensive will not stop until the "terrorist infrastructure" is crushed. The Palestinians say the hardline former general wants to eradicate Palestinian self-rule.
Powell told Lahoud, and later Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, that the attacks on disputed Israeli border positions risked pushing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians into a wider regional war.
"It is essential for all of us who are committed to peace to act immediately to stop aggressive actions along the entire border," he said in Beirut.
Washington fears a "second front" in the Middle East conflict along Israel's northern border.
Assad did not speak to reporters but later issued a statement through Syria's official news agency saying that Palestinian suicide bombings had widespread public support in the Arab world.
"There are hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims who support these operations and their condemnation would not have any effect ... reality is stronger than people and governments," he said.
Powell suggested that Arafat was not an essential presence at a Middle East peace conference which Sharon asked the United States to organise and the Palestinians as a "trick".
International concern has been mounting over the conduct of the campaign, particularly over a week-long battle in the Jenin refugee camp, which the International Committee of the Red Cross said needed humanitarian aid like "a quake zone."
"ICRC delegates, who today went to a small part of the camp, saw there a scene like from an earthquake: collapsed houses, debris everywhere, destroyed roads," ICRC spokesman Vincent Lusser told AFP.
The ICRC team was escorted by the Israeli army and among the first three to visit the camp since an Israeli assault began there more than ten days ago.
After retrieving 14 bodies, the team left amid fears of booby-traps and the danger of buildings made unstable by the bombardment.
The Palestinians claim Israeli troops engaged in a massacre of 500 Palestinians, including many women and children. The Israeli army said the claim was propaganda but is keeping the area off-limits to the press.
At least six Palestinians were killed in clashes with the Israeli army Monday, including two in the Gaza Strip.
At Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, one of the holiest sites in Christianity, gunfire erupted leaving several Israeli troops and Palestinians wounded.
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