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...Paris, C'est Cher! FRANCE Public prosecutors confirmed that an investigation is under way into suspect transfers totaling $11.4 million to accounts held by the Paris-based wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The probe was launched in October after the Bank of France flagged monthly deposits from Switzerland made between July 2002 and July 2003 to two accounts held by Suha Arafat. She denied the payments were illegal, and accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of orchestrating "malicious" reports...
...courtyard of Yasser Arafat's battered Ramallah compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips...
Beilin and Rabbo’s bold initiative will not itself bring peace, a bleak history suggests, but can advance the cause—as long as the U.S. wrests the accord’s future from Sharon and Arafat. As soon as he knew of the accord’s success, Sharon dismissed it as subversive and treasonous, because it skirted his government, courted Arafat’s approval and boosted the political stature of opponents like Beilin, intent on Israeli regime change. Arafat, meanwhile, has qualified his private support with public vacillation, at once praising the plan...
Decisive action from Bush during an election year, in short, is all that can rescue the accord from irrelevance. Among world leaders, only Bush can bypass Sharon and Arafat and appeal directly to moderate Israelis and Palestinians, who, in turn, can force their intransigent leadership to the table. Peace will require gradual reeducation on both sides, given decades of rhetoric about victory without compromise. Bush could encourage that process by confronting both populations with the reality that, as The New York Times editorial page puts it, “this is more or less...
...allegations of corruption, dissolved its parliament and called elections for December, a year early. The third attempt in just over a year to elect a new President was set to be held on Sunday. Previous polls failed due to low voter turnout. Meet the New Boss MIDDLE EAST Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian cabinet, headed by PM Ahmed Qurie. The new lineup seemed weaker than that of Qurie's predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after Arafat undermined his attempts to curb Islamic terrorists. Qurie lost his struggle with Arafat to name a strong security chief...