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...White House still has some muscle with the Israelis, it has less and less with the Palestinians. Washington pressed Abu Ala to appoint an emergency Cabinet that would take control of the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on Hamas and other radical groups, but Abu Ala backed down under pressure from Arafat and others. Some in the Administration wondered whether the new Prime Minister was already compromised. "The U.S. has made it pretty clear," says this official, "that we won't support someone who is the voice of Yasser Arafat...
...retaliation for Israel's attempted assassination a week earlier of the group's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Few people on either side of the conflict had had much faith that Hamas would stick to the cease-fire it declared in June. But the newest attacks--and the Israeli Cabinet's decision to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "in a manner, and at a time, of its choosing" for failing to crack down on terrorism--raised the specter of a return to all-out war between Israelis and Palestinians...
...country's disdain for the E.U.'s 3% cap on budget deficits. Earlier this month Raffarin said his duty was to France and not to the E.U.'s "mathematics." At least the French and Germans have each other. Most of the French government flew to Berlin for a joint cabinet meeting on Thursday, and they had a warm reception. The same cannot be said for the main outcome of their meeting: a "growth initiative" to funnel investment into big European infrastructure projects, like linking France's high-speed train system with Germany's; spending more money...
...This is my homeland ... no one can kick me out." YASSER ARAFAT, Palestinian leader, after Israel's security cabinet announced a decision to "remove...
...arguments for restraint on Arafat are well known in Israel, all the way up to Sharon?s cabinet. Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky wrote in Haaretz on Tuesday that "We must face the simple truth: Arafat has unsurpassed stature in Palestinian society. Palestinians view him as a national hero. And since Arafat's strength is sustained by his opposition to Israel, his exile would only fortify his position." An exiled Arafat would retain the leadership of the Palestinian national movement, thereby rendering redundant the Palestinian Authority, which would be unlikely to survive his departure. Simply put, no one would be willing...