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...Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli action, because using its veto in support of Israel won't help win Arab converts to the cause of regime-change in Baghdad. But resolving the standoff won't be easy: Israel is demanding the surrender of some 50 wanted men inside Arafat's HQ; the Palestinian leader has rejected that demand and insists on security as well as political talks with the Israelis. Plainly, the besieged Palestinian leader is going to work Operation Matter of Time for all it's worth - and given the extent to which the tide of Palestinian politics...
...RELATED COVER STORIES Arafat: All Boxed In Apr. 8, 2002 Mideast Covers Bush & the Mideast Mar. 25, 2002 ----------------- Lost in the Rubble? Oct. 23, 2000 ----------------- Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat...
...Only last week, Fatah had dealt its leader one of the most humiliating blows of his political career by rejecting his picks for the Palestinian Authority cabinet, forcing him to withdraw them rather than lose a no-confidence vote in the Palestinian legislature. And legislators had warned Arafat that if he wants to get his cabinet approved, he'll have to ditch some of his most trusted aides accused of corruption and mismanaging the Palestinian cause. Those who voted against Arafat include a wide range of groupings within Fatah, each with its own agenda. But their open challenge to their...
...siege, then, may yet be Arafat's last hurrah. It may have temporarily frozen his demise, but he's unlikely to regain lost ground. Indeed, nothing will accelerate his fall faster than handing over more men to the Israelis to end yet another siege - the deals he cut to end the previous siege in the Spring were widely condemned by ordinary Palestinians, and particularly within Fatah...
...support for action against Iraq, and had been told everywhere he went that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was a far greater, and more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...