One of the last letters Mustafa Zibri wrote from his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah was to fellow leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "Unless we contribute militarily to the intifadeh," the P.F.L.P. chief wrote, "we will be marginalized and nobody will mention our name." Soon after, Zibri died in a helicopter rocket attack by Israel, which blamed him for a string of car bombs in the yearlong Palestinian uprising called the Aqsa intifadeh. Once the Muslim mourning period for Zibri ended last week, the P.F.L.P.'s military wing took its revenge in an unprecedented...
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