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...Bush is deeply disappointed in Yasser Arafat. The feeling, of course, is mutual, but Arafat has a lot more to lose. The National Security Council met Friday to consider the future of its relationship with the Palestinian Authority, and initial signs are that the administration is inclined to support Ariel Sharon's thesis that the primary obstacle to peace in the Middle East is Arafat himself. And also to act on that view, by cutting ties with Arafat and recusing Washington from its mediation role, giving Sharon carte blanche to pursue a military-driven solution...
...Ariel Sharon stood on the dock at Israel's Red Sea port Eilat. Arrayed around him were row upon row of rifles, rockets, missiles and ammunition. Israeli commandos had snatched the weapons from a boat Israel claims was smuggling the arms to the Palestinian Authority. Sharon accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of wanting to blow up the faint, remaining hopes of peace with this lethal, 50-ton haul. But it was not for Arafat, whom Sharon consistently calls a terrorist, that the Israeli Prime Minister had his bitterest words. Those he reserved for Iran, which Israel maintains was the supplier...
...Hadera, saying the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Karmi. Israel blamed the attack directly on Arafat, and the response was swift - Israeli F-16s destroyed Palestinian Authority security headquarters in the town of Tulkarm, in what may only be the first installment of what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised would be "a lesson the Palestinian Authority will never forget...
...officer has suggested that Israel may have to reoccupy territories ceded to Arafat under the Oslo Accord. And it's not just a hawkish general who's thinking that way. The Post also reports that Labor Party leader Benjamin Ben-Eliezer on Thursday justified his decision to remain in Ariel Sharon's unity cabinet with a claim that he and his colleagues had managed to block a cabinet proposal to recapture territory and force Arafat out of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Ariel Sharon stood on the dock at Israel's Red Sea port Eilat. Arrayed around him were row upon row of rifles, rockets, missiles and ammunition. Israeli commandos had snatched the weapons from a boat Israel claims was smuggling the arms to the Palestinian Authority. Sharon accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of wanting to blow up the faint, remaining hopes of peace with this lethal, 50-ton haul. But it was not for Arafat, whom Sharon consistently calls a terrorist, that the Israeli Prime Minister had his bitterest words. Those he reserved for Iran, which Israel maintains was the supplier...