In a sense, Khalil al-Wazir died for a biblical injunction: an eye for an eye. When an Israeli hit team assassinated the Palestine Liberation Organization's operations chief three weeks ago, the act was in retaliation for his role in masterminding a large number of P.L.O. terror attacks over the years. Yet al- Wazir's death was also intended to decapitate the intifadeh, the five- month- old uprising that has rocked the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. As head of the P.L.O.'s "western-sector command," he was in charge of the organization's support for the rebellion. Killing him, the Israelis believed,...
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