Brief Analysis
        
      Arafat and His Critics:
    
        
    
    On December 1, Mu'awyeh Al-Masri, a Palestinian legislator from Nablus, was shot in the leg by a group of masked men in broad daylight. This mafia-style "kneecapping" was the culmination of several days of arrests and protests in the Palestinian Authority (PA) which followed the distribution of a leaflet accusing
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        - David Schenker
 - Robert Satloff