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...last time Dick Cheney visited the Middle East as a Cabinet member in a Bush Administration, he was trying to sell wavering Arab states on a U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein. Some things never change. Briefing reporters before his 10-day trip--which will include stops in Britain, Turkey, Israel and nine Arab states--Cheney did not mention Iraq, saying only that his discussions would focus on America's campaign against al-Qaeda. But aides later acknowledged what everybody suspected: Cheney this week will present his hosts with the Administration's case against Saddam and inform them that...
Ariel Sharon has never been one to pussyfoot. He does not shy from confrontation, physical or verbal. The bumptious Prime Minister of Israel outdid himself, however, when speaking to reporters in an impromptu session at the parliament cafeteria early last week. Explaining the decision of his inner Cabinet to intensify the military campaign against the Palestinians, he used language that was unusually bald. "The Palestinians must be hit, and it must be very painful," he said. "We must cause them losses, victims, so that they feel a heavy price." He went on to do just that, unleashing a broader military...
...business of trucemaking, the Bush Administration said it would send special Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni to the region for just that purpose. Bowing to a crucial Israeli demand, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had his forces arrest the fifth and final suspect in the October killing of an Israeli Cabinet minister. And Sharon made his own concession. He did not take back his threat to "batter" the Palestinians--though he claimed to have meant not Palestinians generally but terrorists--but he said he was dropping his insistence on a week free of Palestinian attacks before Israel would discuss a cease...
...Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the arrest of all suspects in the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. With the detention of the final fugitive, Majdi Rimawi, Sharon has lost much of his justification for confining Arafat to Ramallah, but he will have to convince right-wingers in his Cabinet before lifting the blockade...
...foreign occupation. "Fatah is free to fight settlers and the army at any place in the West Bank but not inside the Green Line," says a senior Fatah official, referring to the unofficial border separating Israel proper from the Palestinian territories. Says Nabil Shaath, a minister in Arafat's Cabinet: "No one on earth could blame us for attacking the soldiers and the settlers...