DURING A MEETING of church leaders with Yasir Arafat in Gaza last month, Judith Craig, a United Methodist bishop from Ohio, offered a prayer. After the prayer grasped Craig's hands and said, "Pray for me every day." The president of the Palestine National Authority needs all the divine and human help he can get. So do the more than 800,000 Palestinians who live under his jurisdiction in the little enclaves of Gaza and Jericho, as well as the 1.2 million who live in the still-occupied ...