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...more evenhanded approach to the warring parties while powerful hard-liners, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, push to give Sharon a freer hand. Rumsfeld argued against sending Powell to the region at all, against making any new offers to the Palestinians and against a Powell meeting with Arafat. "It's fight, fight, fight--all the time, at every step," says a Powell associate. "He's getting increasingly frustrated. Every single step in the road gets fought over." Last week, with Powell shuttling through five countries and the violence in the West Bank becoming worse, the White House kept quiet...
...Rummy's side," says a senior official. "Powell's doing a job, a hard job. It shouldn't be an opportunity to play a political game." Even so, Powell's aides were frustrated to hear that an Administration hawk had told TIME the hard-liners are "looking past Arafat" to new Palestinian leaders. "You could do that theoretically," says a close Powell aide. "But Arafat's the person everybody's going to have to do business with, like it or not." Powell's determination to meet with Arafat--despite Arafat's refusal last month to sign a U.S.-sponsored "bridging...
...Israeli offensive against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank--and the Palestinian leadership's continued sanctioning of suicide attacks against innocent Israelis--has led some to wonder whether even statehood can bring a lasting peace in a place where hatred runs so deep. A Palestinian gunman from Arafat's Fatah Tanzim militia who escaped the Jenin camp tells TIME that "we are very grateful to Sharon because he made every Palestinian child, every Palestinian woman and every Palestinian man hate the Jews and hate Israel...
...trying so hard to find a pathway to peace. Its strategy is still coming into focus. Says a senior White House aide: "We're in an atmosphere where everyone is waiting for someone else to go first." The first big breakthrough Powell needs is to convince Sharon and Arafat that they can wait no longer. --With reporting by Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem, Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem, Nasser Abu Bakr/Jenin, Scott MacLeod/Cairo and James Carney and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...called final-status issues that require the toughest compromises. The antagonists came close in a series of taboo-shattering discussions begun at Camp David in 2000 that nearly concluded before President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak both left office in early 2001. If negotiations ever do resume, Arafat wants to start where those talks left off. But Sharon has revoked previous Israeli offers. Here are the four chief obstacles to peace in the Middle East...