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...week's diplomatic offensive, which featured the strongest criticisms of Israel by any U.S. Administration in more than a decade. By the weekend Cheney aides were scrambling to arrange a meeting between the Vice President and Palestinian officials. An Administration official told TIME that Bush decided to send special envoy Anthony Zinni back to the region partly because "there was a danger that the violence could hijack the Cheney trip. We thought it was useful to show we were dealing with all these issues." After privately chiding Sharon for his campaign against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority...
MIDDLE EAST Despite Fresh Attacks, Talks Still Have a Chance Israeli and Palestinian security officials met U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni to discuss the plan drawn up last year by CIA director George Tenet, which requires withdrawal to positions held before the start of the Aqsa intifadeh 18 months ago. The two sides failed to reach agreement, and the Israelis called a halt when a bomber killed himself and three others near shops in West Jerusalem, only a day after a similar attack on a bus killed seven. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks. After Zinni met Israeli Prime Minister...
...intensification. But at the highest level of leadership, locally and in Washington, the crescendo of violence has produced what could prove to be a corrective shock. After refusing for months to venture into the unpromising business of trucemaking, the Bush Administration said it would send special Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni to the region for just that purpose. Bowing to a crucial Israeli demand, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had his forces arrest the fifth and final suspect in the October killing of an Israeli Cabinet minister. And Sharon made his own concession. He did not take back his threat...
...Israeli army gave a clear display of what Sharon on the offensive looks like. It sent a missile into Arafat's Ramallah compound, for the second time this year, coming within 70 feet of where the Palestinian leader was sitting with Miguel Moratinos, the European Union's Middle East envoy. Army officers say they are not trying to kill Arafat--just to scare him into curbing the uprising. For good measure, the Israelis also bombarded a building in Arafat's Gaza City compound...
Israel's move into Palestinian territories Tuesday could be mistaken for a full-blown invasion. But despite launching the biggest military operation since the Lebanon war began 20 years ago, Israel has made clear that the offensive will end when Bush administration envoy General Anthony Zinni arrives later this week. And it is Zinni's visit - as part of the renewed U.S. cease-fire effort designed to court Arab support for action against Iraq - that has Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon at once making gestures towards a truce and escalating military activity...