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...Ariel Sharon's attack on Palestinian Authority targets this week different from those authorized last year by Ehud Barak...
...Matt Rees: For one thing, Sharon didn't send a warning to the Palestinians beforehand to vacate the buildings. Rocketing empty buildings had been counterproductive for Barak in terms of the Israeli public, because people were saying the price of killing Israelis was a few desks and chairs. Then again, Sharon did launch the attacks at night, when the buildings would be mostly empty except for a guard...
...Sharon is also saying this strike was part of a strategy which is different from Barak's. Whenever Barak launched an attack, he waited for Arafat?s position to change. Sharon says he?s going to keep going, escalating pressure on Arafat until the Palestinian leader agrees to start talking about a cease-fire. He plans to launch bombing attacks, and then escalate to assassinations while continuing the bombing, and then escalate to sealing off villages and conducting house to house searches while continuing bombing and assassinations. It has what you may call a Middle Eastern tough-mindedness about...
...When Ehud Barak's Camp David offer of far-reaching concessions was spurned by Arafat, and violence ensued, a tragic consequence were the casualties sustained by rock-throwing youths standing among the Palestinian snipers. Arab leaders indignantly denied the suggestion that the teenagers had been deliberately placed in harm's way to gain sympathy points on the nightly news. However, their protests were muffled when USA Today reported on December 8 that Palestinian women from Tulkarm were outraged that their children were being picked up after school and brought into battle zones, and had written a protest letter to Arafat...
...been billed as one of the major policy statements of the administration. Sharon certainly feels that he's gotten a good hearing in Washington, and he'll welcome the idea that the administration won't meddle or interfere. Both sides share many of the same criticisms of the Barak-Clinton process...