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...things Ariel Sharon can usually count on to make his life easier: Yasser Arafat's knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; and the fact that Arafat's radical Islamic opposition shares the Israeli leader's distaste for the Oslo peace process. Sharon, a month after declaring Arafat "irrelevant" and trying in vain to convince the U.S. to do the same, nearly found himself in the uncomfortable position of having to renew political negotiations with Arafat before two incidents saved him. First, a boatload of weapons apparently meant for the Palestinian authority was intercepted by the Israelis. Then...
Regrettably, it now appears that not only has Arafat failed to clamp down on the terrorist organizations that operate within Palestinian territory, he is actively willing to pursue a policy of violence on his own. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has repeatedly proclaimed his unwillingness to negotiate with terrorists. Unfortunately for Arafat and for the Palestinian cause, there now seems to be very little possibility of any thaw in relations between Sharon...
Hamas didn't want to share the credit, but the fact that the Martyrs Brigade implicated itself in the bus attack was the latest sign that Arafat's own putative loyalists are now participating in the mayhem. That development is one reason the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week officially cut contacts with Arafat, declaring him "irrelevant." Said Cabinet Minister Tzipi Livni: "It's no longer that the Palestinian Authority isn't doing enough. Some of the Authority people have become part of these terrorist organizations...
Person of the Week FADING OUT Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has cut off communications with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, calling him "no longer relevant." Can the overshadowed former freedom fighter re-energize his moderate power base and scrape his way back to the negotiating table...
...Laden and his enemies. The Afghan campaign has not diminished the anti-American anger on which bin Laden built his movement - Arab media is dominated not by stories of al-Qaeda's defeat, but by reports of Palestinians under attack by Israel and of U.S. support for Ariel Sharon; moderate Arab regimes are pleading with Washington to abandon talk of a new war with Iraq, and so on. But whether the militants in the various Islamist networks are going to continue to risk their necks for bin Laden will depend not simply on their anger at America, but on whether...