51.  Israel has maintained that violent Palestinian protests are orchestrated by the Palestinian leadership and that Israeli troops have responded only when attacked.

52.  Israel is more likely to move on humanitarian measures like this than to ease financial pressures on the Palestinian leadership.

53.  Israeli officials say they cannot pull out of the West Bank until the Palestinian leadership halts terrorist attacks by Islamic militants against Israelis.

54.  It is portraying the attempt at smuggling as proof that the Palestinian leadership is planning for war while talking of peace.

55.  It warns Israel not to press too hard, lest it next face a Palestinian leadership from among the extremist groups.

56.  Kuwaitis have no great love for the Palestinian leadership, which backed Iraq during the invasion, but the issue of control of Jerusalem grates.

57.  Late Wednesday the Palestinian leadership denounced the bombing, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

58.  Many Israelis believe that their government has displayed restraint in the face of a violent Palestinian uprising manipulated by the Palestinian leadership.

59.  Most had not known him personally, but his martyrdom had been embraced by the Palestinian leadership and transformed, in short order, into a powerful recruiting device.

60.  Negotiations must be held, but with a more realistic Palestinian leadership, he said.