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...While Sharon and the hawks in his cabinet may have little compunction about destroying Arafat politically, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres plainly shares some of Washington's concerns. Arafat may be an unlovely and unreliable negotiating partner, Peres warns, but he's the only one Israel has. If Arafat is eclipsed politically, his successors will be even less inclined to deal with Israel and more committed to war - a war that Israel is unlikely to lose, but equally unlikely to win. Lightly armed Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers have no hope of forcing Israel to retreat from the West Bank...
...filled: to “secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks” by bringing the 40 or so agencies responsible for domestic safety into close cooperation. But in light of the immediate terrorist threat, nobody knows exactly how the new Office or its cabinet-level director, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, plan to carry out that mission. On the one hand, the order shows that Bush is capable of a rapid response to new danger. But on the other hand, that response “expanding the cabinet and adding another layer of bureaucracy?...
Tony Blair strides back from first class on a chartered flight from Cairo to London, lugging a large, scuffed red leather box of the sort that has held papers for British Cabinet ministers since the days of Gladstone. He is wearing a pair of khakis and a white shirt with the top two buttons undone, revealing a surprisingly buff chest (his aides won't confirm that he pumps iron, just that he plays a lot of tennis). He delivers the box to a secretary and joshes easily with a communications technician. Already this day he has been in Oman...
...meeting between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres in Washington. After the meeting, Peres reiterated Israel's insistence that it will remain in six Palestinian towns until Yasser Arafat agrees to hand over the gunmen responsible for last week's assassination of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi, while Powell's spokesman repeated Washington's call for an immediate withdrawal and once again warned that the Israeli presence in those towns contributed to an escalation of violence. But the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel will cut short its current military operation in Palestinian towns, "following...
...They can't let this assassination pass easily. To them it's a slap in the face on a par with the World Trade Center attack. So Sharon has to strengthen his internal front. Before this he was in trouble with his cabinet; now he's in a better position. Sharon's game is political survival. He has to hit strongly against Arafat. That's the way that polishes his image in eyes of Israelis. Even if that means losing international support. Who cares about international support? America is preoccupied with Afghanistan. Only Colin Powell has the time to make...