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...alternatives to Arafat. The Administration tacitly admitted as much last month, when Secretary of State Colin Powell implored Arafat to help Abbas disarm Hamas. Now Arafat's position may be even stronger. Although U.S. officials say they haven't given up hope that Abbas will return, Palestinian sources say there's little chance Abbas--who tearfully accused Arafat of inciting threats against him--would return under Arafat. Among the possible successors to Abbas are Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian parliament; Nabil Shaath, who served as Abbas' Foreign Minister; and Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian businessman...
...Friday, North Korea's official news agency dismissed the negotiations as "a stage show to force us to disarm." Worse still, the next day, contradicting an earlier statement by the Chinese, North Korea announced that it saw no point in returning to the table...
...road map and the cease-fire. "We didn't agree to all this just to reopen the Gaza road," said a Hamas supporter a few weeks ago. Israelis, just as impatiently, expected the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, under Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, to arrest, disarm and dismantle Hamas and other militant bands. Neither side delivered, and each accused the other of purposefully stalemating progress...
...mass destruction. "More of its boats will be stopped," says a Western official involved in interdiction policy. "This is the future for North Korea." Even China, North Korea's only real benefactor and the host for this week's talks, is losing patience and has admonished North Korea to disarm...
...From an Israeli point of view, it failed at the first hurdle because Abbas refused to disarm the militants. From a Palestinian point of view, it failed because Israel refused to answer the "hudna" with the quid-pro-quo of prisoner releases and withdrawals. But if the blood continues to flow in the coming weeks, the post-mortem on the cease-fire will become academic. And the discussion will shift to the question of what other ideas the Bush administration has for stopping the carnage that the Israelis and Palestinians, separately and together, appear unable to halt...