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against a hapless population. The
Jerusalem based Palestinian Human
Rights Monitoring Group finds that
weapons possession has become socially
legitimized in Palestinian society."
In gang-dominated Nablus, for exam-
ple, some deaths have resulted from spi-
raling criminal activity and reckless accu-
sations of "collaboration" with Israel.
But, Reuters explains, most casualties
involve mistaken identity or plain bad
luck. In two typical stories dating from
February 2004, "Amneh Abu Hijleh, 37,
entered a pharmacy to buy cough syrup
for her infant daughter only to be shot
dead in a botched abduction. Firas
Aghbar, 13, was killed when he walked
into a gang battle on his way to the bar-
ber for a birthday trim."
As explained by the Washington Post,
"the Palestinian Authority is broke,
politically fractured, riddled with cor-
ruption, unable to provide security for
its own people and seemingly unwilling
to crack down on terrorist attacks
against Israel." One unnamed Fatah
member estimates that 90 percent of
gang activity is carried out by Palestinian
Authority employees.
In February, for example, one

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September 2000, has prompted the P.A.
to declare a state of emergency; it could
signal the end of the P.A. itself
According to an April poll of the
Gaza-based General Institute for
Information, 94 percent of Palestinians
believe that a state of lawlessness and
chaos prevails in Palestinian Authority
territories. As Palestinian security forces
have fragmented and dissolved, armed
groups of unknown identity have taken

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A

riel Sharon's latest attempt to
convince French Jews to make
aliyah has angered both
French politicians and Jewish commu-
nity officials in France.
Sharon's call was based on the
increase in anti-Semitism that France
has experienced in recent years.
French President Jacques Chirac was
reported to have sent a letter to Sharon
on Monday, saying that "after a num-
ber of weeks of contacts concerning
your visit, it appears that it is impossi-
ble and you will not be welcome fol-
lowing your statements. ))
However, in a statement issued late
Monday, however, the Elysee Palace
denied that Chirac had sent Sharon a

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formal letter. Instead, the palace said,
"a possible visit to Paris by the Israeli
prime minister, for which no date had
been fixed, will not be examined until
the explanations demanded have been
furnished,"
The controversy erupted after
Sharon told a visiting delegation from
the United Jewish Communities feder-
ation umbrella group in Jerusalem on
Sunday that French Jews should move
to Israel immediately in order to flee
rising anti-Semitism.
Aliyah from France has doubled over
the past three years, with more than
2,000 French Jews now immigrating
annually to Israel — only a small per-
centage of France's Jewish community,
at 600,000 the largest in Western