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Nobody wants Yasser Arafat in charge of Palestinian affairs: Not Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been trying to sideline his old enemy since taking office three years ago; not the Bush administration, which made clear last summer that sidelining Arafat is an essential condition for renewing the peace process; and not even many Palestinian leaders from his own Fatah faction, who have spent much of the past year working to break the aging Arafat's personal monopoly on power. And yet, as Wednesday's deadline approaches for Palestinian prime minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) to present...
...world, fallout from the war in Iraq has increased pressure on America and Britain to push Israel and the Palestinians to renew the peace process. But in order for the negotiations to begin again in earnest, neither side must set impossible preconditions—as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appeared to do in an interview published this past Sunday, when he said that Palestinians must immediately abandon the right of return while Israel need not stop expanding its settlements until final status talks begin...
...West Bank” on its hands. Terrorist extremist groups from within the region and elsewhere in the Arab world will have a tremendous new determination. And if Bush is prepared to handle its occupied territories in any way similar to the way Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has handled his, the U.S. may only be adding fuel to the fire?...
...process that challenges the authoritarianism and extremism that nurtures terrorism and hostility to the West and Israel in countries ranging from Egypt and Saudi Arabia to Syria and Iran. They are, by and large, strong supporters not only of Israel, but of the hard-line policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and they argue that winning Washington's own war on terrorism requires a long-term reengineering of Arab societies...
...blamed on the Palestinians. Another reason was what Arabs saw as American backing for Israel's strong military response to the Palestinian intifada. In any discussion about Bush's policies, no Arab will fail to remind you that the President once called hard-line Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon a "man of peace...