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...militant Islamic organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad rather than factions loyal to Arafat. But because of his lenient treatment of those groups during the current 14-month-long intifadeh, Arafat is held accountable by Israel for their terrorism. "We regard Mr. Arafat as guilty of everything," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told TIME late last week...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke from his Negev desert ranch by phone Friday with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees. Excerpts...
...liberation conflict and more as war against an implacable enemy intent on their destruction (just as most Israelis are now convinced the Palestinians want to wipe them off the map). "The starting point is not religion," says a cleric. "It is a state of desperation at facing Ariel Sharon and his army...
...Laden tape, but rather Israel's decision to declare Yasser Arafat "irrelevant" and cut all ties with him that dominated Arab headlines this week. And Arab papers see Ariel Sharon rather than Yasser Arafat as the problem. Egypt's Al Ahram blames the crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon...
Yasser Arafat was officially pronounced dead - politically, at least - by Israel on Thursday. After Palestinian gunmen killed 12 Israeli settlers on a bus in the West Bank, the government of Ariel Sharon declared Arafat "irrelevant" to the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians. Sharon vowed to break off all contact with the Palestinian leader, and to send his own army to do what Arafat has failed to do - stop terror attacks on Israelis. By Friday, the Israeli Defense Force had mounted some of its heaviest attacks yet on Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, sending in troops and tanks to conduct mass...