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...Although the Arab peace plan was never going to tempt Sharon - the Arab consensus is that peace won't be possible while he remains Prime Minister, an inversion of the widely held Israeli belief about Arafat - it does restate the question of Israel's long-term intentions for the West Bank and Gaza...
...such consensus is even more elusive now than it was a year ago when the Mitchelll Report landed on President Bush's desk. Sharon is averse to restarting political talks, both because of the current violence and because he has traditionally opposed the Oslo Accord that would serve, according to Mitchell, as the basis for further negotiations...
...message will not come as a surprise. "The feeling in the region is that a strike is definitely coming," says an Arab diplomat. Cheney isn't expected to provide details of the U.S. strategy against Saddam, though that may be because the Bush camp hasn't yet reached a consensus. "The dirty little secret of Iraq is that there is no plan," says a senior Administration official. "Where our thinking is on Iraq is all out in the public." The Administration is in no rush to act. A British diplomat says "all the vibes from Washington" suggest that any military...
Panelist William Kristol ’73, editor of the conservative political magazine, The Weekly Standard , said, “I think in October of 2004 there will be a consensus as to whether this administration was successful or not in the war on terrorism...
Limiting “acceptable” political discussions to safe topics on which there is largely a consensus stifles conversation about subjects that depart from these three Harvard political touchstones and silences a wide spectrum of voices whose political priorities are independent of abortion, gay rights or the environment...