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...Bush administration's concern is that pictures of Israeli tanks on Arab satellite television stations will only inflame opinions already simmering after more than a year of the Aqsa Intifadeh. The U.S. is already seen by Arabs as a biased backer of Israel, so the tanks won't help ease the qualms Muslims feel about the bombing of Afghanistan. In fact, it may be too late. After Israeli troops first moved into the Palestinian towns, Ronald Schlicher, the U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem, went to Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the chief Muslim cleric in the city, to gauge public opinion...
Knafel remains CGIS’ lead backer and deserves an “enormous amount of credit” for getting the project off the ground, Tiedemann says...
...while Netanyahu has the luxury of being outside of government, Sharon has to balance domestic concerns with those of Israel's all-important international backer - and Washington is plainly insisting that the Israelis negotiate with the Palestinian Authority rather than shut it down. That faces Sharon with a dilemma, since the levels of force he has applied until now have failed to end the intifada, and increasing the level of force is diplomatically untenable. But dialogue, in the event that it can achieve a cease-fire, will force Sharon into the uncomfortable position of having to contemplate political negotiations with...
...medical profession have done likewise. Some of Vichai's critics question the science behind the pills. Others question the company he keeps: his principal backer is Salang Bunnag, an ex-police general who was forced to resign from the force in 1998 after members of a drug gang that publicly surrendered tohim were taken off and, minutes later, shot dead. Vichai says Salang believed in his cure when the medical establishment ignored...
...district (not recognized by the United Nations) as a pretext to persist with attacks on Israeli forces there. In reality, however, Hezbollah's actions are more of an expression of solidarity with the Palestinians - on its own part as well as on the part of Iran, Hezbollah's primary backer - and their ability to hurt the Israelis has always constituted a form of leverage by proxy for the Syrians...