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...Ariel Sharon has never been one to pussyfoot. He does not shy from confrontation, physical or verbal. The bumptious Prime Minister of Israel outdid himself, however, when speaking to reporters in an impromptu session at the parliament cafeteria early last week. Explaining the decision of his inner Cabinet to intensify the military campaign against the Palestinians, he used language that was unusually bald. "The Palestinians must be hit, and it must be very painful," he said. "We must cause them losses, victims, so that they feel a heavy price." He went on to do just that, unleashing a broader military...
...believe that the article seeks to justify the acts that are currently being committed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon such as the bombing of villages and the destruction of homes,” Al-Alami said. “That is the basis for why we will protest. We don’t believe such acts are justified...
...Middle East tour has highlighted the difficulties faced by the Bush administration in making Iraq the focus of Phase 2 of its war on terrorism. The message the Vice President heard repeatedly on his rounds of Arab capitals over the past week is that Washington's Arab allies see Ariel Sharon as a bigger threat to regional security than Saddam Hussein, and they want the U.S. to prioritize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than a new campaign against Iraq...
That grating sound echoing across the Middle East this week is the noise of U.S. Mideast policy being slammed out of reverse and into first gear. Having spent most of the past three months with its arms folded, blaming Israeli-Palestinian violence almost entirely on Yasser Arafat and sparing Ariel Sharon even pro-forma calls for restraint, the Bush administration has lately been scrambling to reinvent itself as an even-handed activist mediator. The President on Wednesday castigated Sharon's tactics, sponsored a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a Palestinian state and sent Marine General Anthony Zinni back...
...Israel has made clear that the offensive will end when Bush administration envoy General Anthony Zinni arrives later this week. And it is Zinni's visit - as part of the renewed U.S. cease-fire effort designed to court Arab support for action against Iraq - that has Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon at once making gestures towards a truce and escalating military activity...