Renegade Palestinians threaten new attacks

[Herschel]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=425329

"Palestinian militants threatened yesterday to break the fragile Middle East ceasefire and launch new suicide attacks inside Israel.

In one of a series of leaflets distributed in the West Bank, a renegade cell of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, one of the main militant factions, condemned the Palestinian Prime Minister, Abu Mazen, for the way he has handled talks with Israel and demanded that the President, Yasser Arafat, fire him.

The leaflets are a sign of a growing split within Mr Arafat's ruling Fatah party, to which the Al-Aqsa Brigades are linked, between those who support the ceasefire and Abu Mazen's efforts in the peace process and those who oppose them.

Sources close to Al-Aqsa said Palestinians in south Lebanon were trying to recruit militants in the West Bank for attacks in Israel. The sources said an attack in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, in which a Palestinian stabbed three people, one fatally, was ordered from south Lebanon."

We should know by now the first step of any peace plan must be the dismantling of the terrorist organizations. Trying to move ahead without that is dangerous and unacceptable.