(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Military Intelligence reckons that Arafat will lend a hand to a new hudna. Arafat is looking for any opening to get out of the corner he's been in since the terror escalated and he lost international legitimacy. Breaches in Israeli society are perceived as encouraging signs on the Palestinian side. The internal dispute in Israel helps remove some of the pressure on Arafat to make concessions, says MI. As opposed to his predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei does not have pretensions of controlling the PA security forces. Arafat is dictating the PA delegation's policies at the Cairo cease-fire talks, and without his approval, the Palestinian delegation would not have gone to Geneva this week. During the previous cease-fire, it was Arafat's organization, Fatah, that was mostly responsible for the violations - the army counted 250 such.
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