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...just last summer that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were huddling over a peace accord at Camp David. A year is an eternity in the Middle East. In the wake of last week's suicide bombing of a Jerusalem pizza parlor, the atmosphere of mistrust between Israel and Palestine is so toxic that Palestinian security officials accuse Israel of covertly distributing two tons of defective explosives in the West Bank, leading to the death of 25 bombmakers and causing injury to 100 others in 60 separate "work accidents" during the intifadeh. Israeli officials deny any plot, saying demand for explosives...
...growing disregard for the boundaries established by the Oslo Accord - described as a "provocation" by Washington - suggests that Sharon is betting on a long, low-intensity war with the Palestinians rather than on any resumption of the peace process. And Arafat appears to be pinning his hopes on some form of international intervention. Both sides will continue to pay lip service to the Mitchell Report and the cease-fire brokered by CIA director George Tenet, but only in as much as such lip service is necessary to achieve their goals. Sharon plainly believes that military action to turn...
...While a bottom-up "unity government" begins to take shape on the Palestinian street, Sharon's own unity government is showing a few signs of strain. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, architect of the Oslo Accord, criticized last week's seizure of Orient House as a tactical mistake - and it's easy to see why. The move brought fierce international criticism, even from Washington, and turned the focus of the international community away from the suicide bombing. It also painted Sharon into a corner: Because Orient House had no official status in Israeli-Palestinian agreements, it will be politically difficult...
When Whitman was picked to head the EPA, the prospects for this proposal seemed to brighten. But a series of Administration moves that alarmed moderates and sandbagged Whitman--including an about-face on pollution standards and withdrawal from the Kyoto global warming accord--suggested otherwise...
...normal society, there would be a variety of voices. This is an abnormal society. It's oppressive. One can hardly breathe - Bao Tong, a former aide to deposed Chinese communist leader Zhao Ziyang a U.N. draft accord on biological weapons. The agreement, which would have strengthened the 30-year ban on germ warfare, was effectively scuppered as U.S. representatives at the U.N. meeting in Geneva claimed it would not achieve its goals and would damage American interests. SPAIN Tourists Targeted Police in the southern tourist resort of M?laga defused a powerful car bomb planted by the Basque separatist organization...