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...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...
Israeli troops are back in Jenin, this time with no plans to leave. And Palestinian radicals have declared their intention to continue launching terror attacks inside Israel, no matter what Yasser Arafat says. Even as the Bush administration weighs what to say about the future of the Middle East, and when to say it, the situation on the ground is rapidly deteriorating...
...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...
...Arafat responded by appealing for an end to terror attacks on Israeli citizens, but this was not the first time he's made such comments. Since the full-blown invasion of "Operation Defensive Shield," Israeli forces (rather than Arafat's PA personnel) have maintained ultimate security control over the West Bank, and Palestinian militants there have continued to attack Israelis despite repeated pleas to halt by Arafat and others...
When the Israelis stormed Arafat's headquarters last week, they harbored no expectation that the incursion would provoke him to confront terrorism. Rather, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes that harassing Arafat will diminish his status, persuading other Palestinians and the world that he is no longer a relevant power. Sharon thinks Arafat is beyond redemption. He has made clear that his preference would be to kill or exile him. However, he promised President Bush he would not do the former, and he feels bound by the pledge, even though, by his own account, he regrets making it. Last week, continuing...