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...Queasy stuff. But the carmakers, possibly looking to be rewarded with their own cabinet position (Secretary of Detroit?) when all this is over, are patriotically soldiering on from phase to phase like a good economic actor should. First, by personally delivering the Fed's cheap money to the people with take-my-car-please financing offers, Big Auto made October's retail sales numbers comforting enough to get to sleep at night...
...latest wave of suicide bombings in Israel has pushed the relationship between Israel and the PA to the brink of war. The Israeli cabinet resolution that the PA is “a terror supporting entity” is the clearest indication that Palestinian reliance on terrorism as a tactic in the ongoing conflict is likely to meet even harsher Israeli responses in the future. Israel has already launched attacks against symbols of the PA’s power in the West Bank and Gaza. Whereas in the past President George W. Bush has urged Israel to show restraint...
...from clear, despite the widely acclaimed political agreement in the German town of Koenigswinter between four rival Afghan factions. It took some dramatic arm twisting and a promise of $20 billion in reconstruction aid to broker the deal in which Karzai will lead a 30-member interim cabinet that will govern for six months before a broadly-representative 'loya jirga' assembly is convened. The agreement also provides for an international security force to be deployed in Kabul, despite earlier opposition from elements of the Northern Alliance...
...ground in different parts of southern, northern and western Afghanistan. Already General Rashid Dostum, whose Uzbek Northern Alliance forces captured Mazar-i-Sharif, has vowed to boycott the new government and prevent it from functioning in his domain. Although the Northern Alliance holds 17 of the 30 cabinet posts, Dostum feels slighted by his Tajik alliance partners who got the plum jobs. And that's not the half of it: The Tajik Northern Alliance representatives at the talks also had to sidestep their leader, President Burhanuddin Rabbani, in order to cut a deal - one Tajik aide at Koenigswinter told reporters...
...Right-wing members of Sharon's cabinet - and Benjamin Netanyahu, his popular challenger for the Likud leadership in the next election - are demanding action to destroy the PA and drive Arafat out of the West Bank and Gaza. Even in Washington, there is mounting skepticism over Arafat's value as a peace partner. The Palestinian leader appears to be drifting desperately, with nothing approximating a strategy and his notoriously autocratic leadership style making it difficult for more clear-sighted aides to effect policy, even as his political authority ebbs more and more visibly. And yet even inside Sharon's cabinet...