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...from the past and toward the future, he said the death of Palestinian Authority Leader Yasir Arafat last month gives the U.S. government “a golden opportunity” to change the deteriorating view of its policies in the Middle East. He said that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent decision to withdraw from the Gaza region provides the U.S. another important opportunity: if Gaza could be portrayed as a model state, Zinni hypothesized, “it could create stability and prosperity for a large number of Palestinians...
Several professors said that criticism of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s policies does not amount to “singling out” Israel. Rather, the fact that the United States sends billions of dollars in aid to Israel each year “gives us not only the right but the moral duty to speak out,” Richard Wilson, the Mallinckrodt research professor of physics, wrote in an e-mail...
...Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, noted in an e-mail that prominent Jews—including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt—made the same comparison to Nazism in 1948 when they denounced the Herut Party, the predecessor to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud bloc...
Israel is trying to bolster Abbas without openly embracing him. In a speech to Likud activists last week, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon backed away from long-standing demands that, as a starting point for peace negotiations, Palestinian leaders disarm militant organizations. Instead, Sharon hinted, he is willing to resume talks with Arafat's successors if they reduce anti-Israeli "incitement" in the Palestinian media and schools. But both sides know the era of good feeling may last only until the next terrorist attack. While Abbas is trying to secure an agreement from Hamas and Islamic Jihad not to strike before...
Window Of Opportunity When British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited Ramallah last week to leave a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave, many observers expected the government of Ariel Sharon to protest. But Israeli officials were resigned. "We snubbed officials who went to talk to Arafat when he was alive," sighed one. "We can't very well do that to those who want to talk to him when he's dead." That tempered response reflects a new mood of conciliation. With Palestinians preparing to vote on Jan. 9 for a new President, Israel last week signaled that it will allow...