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...will sit back, talk up elections, offer commitments of aid and support if the Palestinians develop democratic institutions, and see how they do. In the short run, says the official, overt support for moderates would fatally discredit them in Palestinian eyes. In any case, the Administration believes that Arafat left Palestinians unprepared to make the concessions required to attain statehood, like restrictions of the number of returning refugees, limited control of Jerusalem and the loss of part of the West Bank. Bush's decision to play it cool for now was a bitter pill for Blair, who went to Washington...
...advisers argue that Sharon is the man with the plan, so the best thing the U.S. can do is stay out of his way and support him if he asks for help. In Sharon's office, no one thinks a new set of Palestinian leaders will do what Arafat couldn't: dismantle the terrorist organizations. They might wear suits instead of fatigues and tone down the "revolution to victory" rhetoric, but Israelis still don't trust them. Privately, Israeli officials expect that the moderates' tenure will prove transitory. In any case, Sharon remains fundamentally less interested in negotiating a final...
...Israel will stretch out a hand. Yet the Palestinians need help--diplomatic encouragement, money, a confidence-building concession or two--to take a new direction. Opportunities for peace have been squandered time and again by refusals to take risks. If anything good is to come from Arafat's death, it will require everyone involved to cut through that knot. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Matthew Cooper/ Washington; J.F.O. McAllister with Blair; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Matt Rees, Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein/ Jerusalem
...NEWS, in a written apology for breaking into the last minutes of the crime drama CSI: New York to report the death of Yasser Arafat; the producer responsible for the interruption was reportedly fired...
...After Arafat The death of the rigid old revolutionary leaves millions in mourning but may help the peace process. Should the U.S. get involved...