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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...
...deployed in self-declared "buffer zones" nearby and have shown on a number of occasions over the past week that they reserve the right to reenter those towns at will. The President, moreover, expressed understanding for Israel maintain its sieges of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and Yasser Arafat's offices in Ramallah, where the Israelis say wanted militants are holed...
...been plagued from the outset by the conflicting messages sent by his administration. Sharon chose to hear mostly the administration's message that it understood his actions in terms of Israel's need to defend itself. Emboldened by support from Bush administration hawks for his efforts to take Arafat out of the political equation - and by the mounting domestic political pressure on President Bush to ease up on the Israeli leader and refrain from pressing him to negotiate with his Palestinian counterpart - Sharon told the U.S. he'd withdraw on his own time, and on his own terms...
...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...
...fixing both parties' eyes on the political horizon, pressing for a quick resumption of negotiations over Palestinian statehood. On that front, Sharon suggested a regional peace conference, possibly to be held in the U.S. in June. And although the Israeli leader was forced to retract his insistence that Arafat be excluded from the guest list, the difference between Palestinians and moderate Arabs on the one hand and Sharon on the other over the shape, or even the desirability, of a final settlement gave little cause for confidence that the conference would serve as a beacon to stop the fighting...