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...Israeli operation began late Monday, with the purpose of stopping a fusillade a sniper fire sparked by that day's assassination of radical Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa. The shooting prompted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to make good on a previous warning that Israel would not tolerate any further gunfire directed at Gilo, which Israel regards as part of Jerusalem but the Palestinians see as a settlement because it was built on land annexed after 1967. Beit Jala is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village that lies across a ravine within rifle range, and its residents have repeatedly complained to Arafat...
...Both sides in the West Bank and Gaza are beginning to adopt, in a limited way, the tactics of the Lebanon war, as Oslo appears to slip further and further into history. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon appears to believe that Israel can tough it out, systematically raising the ante of military pressure and exhausting the Palestinians' will to sustain their intifada. He has repeatedly stressed that a political deal of the type discussed at Camp David is out of the question, and speaks instead of some kind of long-term cease-fire. And while Sharon allows his foreign minister...
There is no chance of Israel's halting its collaborator operation. It is stepping up activities on all fronts. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened that the next time a Palestinian gunman fires a shot from the town of Beit Jala across the valley to Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem built on occupied land, Israel will invade the Palestinian town. Last week Israel moved tanks to the edge of Beit Jala as part of what Israeli military officials call a "rolling operation." As in the Jenin incursion, the aim is to mount different types of actions with constantly varying amounts...
...will fail to bring peace to the Mideast. For one thing, there are no substantially new ideas on the table, and for another each man faces considerable skepticism in his own camp over whether there's any point in talking at all. Listening to the statements of Arafat and Ariel Sharon, it's easy to see why. Fundamentally, Sharon is focused on achieving security guarantees without ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and Arafat is pursuing an end to the occupation but appears unable or unwilling to provide the required security guarantees...
...German foreign minister has responded positively to a "phased cease-fire" currently being proposed by Peres. Designed to get around the stalemate over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's insistence that seven full days of calm must precede any implementation of the Mitchell recommendations, Peres's proposal suggests that a cease-fire be built on a region-by-region basis, with Israel easing restrictions on Palestinians in towns where Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority has reined in militants. Arafat had previously made compatible proposals, and the fact that the U.S. has reportedly been pressing Sharon to ease up on his seven...