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...Israeli peaceniks, however, see thing differently. An editorial in the dovish daily Haaretz captures Israel's military-political dilemma right now: "(Military) actions are supposed to increase pressure on Arafat - pressure that is also being applied by Bush, the European Union and other Palestinian leaders - to take action against Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Calibrating the precise dosage of this pressure is not possible. If it is too weak, it is of no use. If there is an overdose, it is liable to bring about the collapse of the PA and to leave Israel facing millions of Palestinians and dozens...
...Early on, the dovish camp led by Secretary of State Colin Powell prevailed. Arab regimes would back away from the U.S. if it targeted Iraq, he warned, and without their support taking down Al Qaeda would prove infinitely more difficult. Besides, as he said in an interview published Sunday by the New York Times, "I never saw a plan that was going to take him out. It was just some ideas coming from various quarters about, 'Let's go bomb.'" That strategy had failed in 1998, and there was no reason to believe it would succeed...
...sides were on the verge of a historic compromise, he opted for war. Coupled with the Palestinian leader’s past record (for example, his failure to crack down on the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in 1995 and 1996, which led to the replacement of the dovish Peres government with the hawkish Netanyahu one), the inevitable conclusion is that whenever Arafat smells peace , he feels the urge to loose his militants. If he had really been interested in peace, he would have continued to negotiate instead of letting all hell break loose just when a resolution was within...
...dovish Israeli daily Haaretz suggests Arafat may be coming under pressure from his close aides to abandon the path of confrontation. Privately, Palestinian leaders tell the paper that "it is not clear where Arafat is leading the Palestinian people; he may be leading them to disaster." The experience of the last year proves that Arafat's Palestinian Authority has no means of countering Israel's military might, while Palestinian society is being torn apart and the PA is losing its authority as chaos threatens...
...among the city?s remaining political leaders. He carries intellectual heft as the head of Al-Quds University and wields political clout as the organizer of Jerusalem?s 1987-93 intifadeh, which helped spur Israeli leaders to negotiate with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh is using his position to push a dovish line at a time when extremists have the upper hand...