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Show The Salt Lake Tribune _MIDEAST STRIFE Tuesday, November 20, 2001 Former PeaceAdvocate Transformsinto Symbolof Palestinian Fight _BY KARIN LAUB that he returned to violence because of disappointmentover whathe believes THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS RAMALLAH, West Bank A peace campaigner-turned-militia leader, Marwan Barghouti, has become a symbolofthelast 14 monthsof conflict. Israelis fear him as a remorseless killer responsible for the deaths of dozens. Palestinians celebrate him as afreedomfighter whois trying to push Israeli soldiers andsettlers out of the West Bank. A jovial man with fluent Hebrew picked upin Israeli jails, the 41-yearold Barghouti said in an interview was a string of Israeli betrayals in years of stop-and-go to support a U.S.-backed truce with hoping[it] will somehownotbetaken as being unduly murderous.” peace deal with Israel Barghouti said he became con Many Israelis are puzzled by Barghouti’s transformation from peace Barghouti’s personaljourney may. helpilluminatewhattoIsraelis nd manyin the West is one ofthe great vinced then Israel. peace negotiations. A leading figure advocatetoleaderof militia that has killed dozens of lis, including in Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, he is clearly unnerved women and children, in West Bank roadside shootings. conflict: Why did the Palestinians walk a fromIsrael's offer ofa state veiled Israel threats “Within the picaresque, if not bizarre, gallery of Palestinian[leaders] with whom Israel conductedintimate love-hate relations for years, Marwan in the a Strip and about nine. tenths of the West Bank, with a foot holdin Jerusalem? Barghouti was arrestedby Israel at to kill him. Compounding his trou- nist Doron Rosenblumin Haaretz.He Barghouti stands out,” wrote colum- age 18 for membership in an armed “lookslike a man whohas put himself into an irreversible trance ofmurderous violence, while nonetheless prison and was deported in 1987. In 1994, he was amongthefirst exiles to return home, following an interim these days by what he sees as thinly bles are tensions with Arafat who, witnesses say, recently dressed him down for refusing mysteries of the Israeli-Palestinian Fatah squad, served six years in . Must accept a Palestinian State in all the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, theterritories it conquered in the 1967 Mideast war. In thefirst years after his return, he tried to rally support for such a deal. But Barghouti said he eventually be- camedisillusioned. I dy to under. stand because they have a mentalityof power.” consci 1s decisionto cometo thepea le and whenthey doso we're morethan willing to help,” he said. But now, as it seeks Arab support in the war onterror: ism, the administration is leaning on Israel to give ground. Theharshest statement in Curb Violence @ Continuedfrom A-1 Sharonpraised the speech, vest Bank, which theycall tions for a. ceas fire with _ officiala_ leading called pecchpositive. “For t time, the United speaking about endraeli occupation,” he thefirst time, they are speaking about a viable said. “ For of Bethlehem.A new U.S.call for Israeli withdrawalfrom the West Bank received cautiouspraisein Israel. Palestinianstate.” Israelis, Palestinians Look to U.S. for Specifics estinians to curbviolenceand terrorism. But the thrust of his speech wasdirectedat Isracl, marking a sudden ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS construction, while the Palestinians say they cannot quash week that the United States no longer supported that con- the uprising without present- dition. JERUSALEM —Israelisand ing concrete results to their Palestinians welcomed Secretary of State Colin Powell’s people. Israeli officials were relieved that Powell did not explicitly removeU.S. support for Israel’s demand that seven pledge Monday to renew the push for Mideast peace, but Palestinian officials noted that Powell’s broadstrokesdidlittle to bridge the differences that havebedeviled efforts to end 14 months offighting. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres praised the speech for what he called its “vision.” “You have a position taken by the United States, you have proposals how to resume the peace process,andall told,it’sa Positive speech,” Peressaid. Palestinian Cabinet Minister Nabil Shaath agreed that “dn a broad vision, the statement was good.” But he said he was disappointed that Powell avoided specifics. “Without a_ time frameand[international] monitors on the ground, this will allow for Israeli procrastination as usual,” Shaath said. daysof quiet precede any other moves. There was concern in Israel after Palestinian officials and Israeli peace activists said last Prime Minister efforts by continuing violence, and there has not been “even Israelis welcomed Powell's Ariel call.on the Palestinian Author- Sharon, said the speech did not ity to “arrest, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of ter- conflict with Israel’s understandingthat the calm must be followed by a six-weekcoolingoff period, and only then would the confidence-building measures begin. * za. Many Jews consider the and Samaria, part of and some200,000 live li settlementactivity verely undermined an trust and hope, aid. “It pre-empts and prejudices the outcomeofne gotiations, and in doing soit 7 cripples ¢ sS for real peace andsecurity. i: = Powell said later: Settlement activity must stop for the ians and Isr occupation must end, and can only end through negotiations.” steered clear of the alem, exe Powell appealedto the Pal. one day”of calm. Raanan Gissin, spokesman for speech at the Uni- v of Louisville con: cerned Jewish home-building on the West Bank and in Ga: ate a team to manage negotia- BY DAN PERRY gee e Powell's. Jewish settleme on the West Bank and in Gaza “and wewould also like to put an endtothe occupation.” too, but stressed that all vio lence must cease before nego tiationsbegin, his office said. Sharon also sed_ that Jerusalem must remain the i i apital ofIsrael d he wouldcre- AnIsraeli soldier, left, argues with a Palestinian in line Mondayat a checkpoint between Jerusalem andthe West Bank town rorist acts” andhisas that the uprising was “m: . the quick sand of violence andterror.” 1 kept break ing promises, hesaid. “They were not rea Powell Asks Palestinians to Pier Paolo Cito/TheAssociated Pr andstill believes today Palestinians must recog: existence andthat Israel, change in direction for the Bush administration. For 10 months, it has concentrated Rep. Brian Ker who watched Powel on televi: on trying to apply the brakes leader Ya: to 14 months ofviolence with cease-fire proposals. Arafat was Bush echoed that view after a Cabinet meeting Monday, and said he has worked vigorously to bring peace. “Our objective is to convince both parties to make a “This is a work for co throughout the world,” sai Kerns, a memberofthe House International Relations Committee, which is touring the Middle East. Gissin contended the Palestinians sabotaged earlier truce Lube, Ol "ee Cth, i”OFF Up to 5 quarts of oil Mast cars, SUV's & igh tracks. In the speech, delivered at the University of Louisville, Powell called forthe creation of a state of Palestine besideIsrael, as did President Bush two weeks ago at the United Nations. 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