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After more than two decades of practice, Yasser Arafat has become an expert in the fine art of survival. Now the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization will once again have to use all his skills to find a way through the current crisis. By refusing to condemn Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, Arafat has infuriated many of his Arab backers, alienated Western powers that had only recently begun to warm to him, and driven Israeli doves into the camps of the hawks...
More important, to be anti-Saddam is not to be pro-West. Many Arabs who condemn Saddam for seizing Kuwait also consider the foreign presence in the gulf an equal if not greater abomination. "Even if Saddam was wrong," says a senior official of a Tunis-based Arab organization, "we can't allow the United States to simply come and destroy a brother Arab state...
...resolution in the Security Council, and they have yet to begin seriously exploring conditions for Beijing's approval. The U.S. is counting on other U.N. resolutions to help cement the coalition and build momentum against Iraq and is likely with its allies to propose several of them: to condemn Iraq's looting and destruction of Kuwait; to demand that Iraq not only withdraw but also pay reparations; and to make countries that help Iraq evade the economic embargo subject to sanctions themselves...
...condemn the way in which our president has reacted to Iraq's aggression by sending U.S. military troops to the region. Bush's response is strikingly similar to Hussein's: both have chosen military over political solutions. One aggression does not justify another...
Unfortunately, the authors have interpreted our opposition to the presence of U.S. troops in the region under any flag other than that of the U.N. or the Arab League to be a sign of support for Saddam Hussein and for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. They are wrong. We condemn aggression in all forms and we call for the upholding of international...