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...most of the West Bank's urban areas. Although the Israeli military is looking to respond through measures punishing family members of suicide bombers, the Defense Minister's revival of the longstanding idea of Gaza as a test-bed for truces and peace agreements suggests that the dovish faction of the Israeli government (Ben-Eliezer heads the Labor Party) is signaling its desire to renew some form of peace process with the Palestinian Authority - notwithstanding the reservations of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which in the person of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Tuesday warned against any dealings with...
...Eliezer and his allies will want strong U.S. involvement in the new truce initiative, but Rumsfeld's remarks suggest that an influential faction within the Bush administration sees no value in being drawn anew into directly mediating the conflict. And despite's Sharon's reported endorsement of the proposal, Ben-Eliezer himself speaks only for a faction of the Israeli government. Then there's the PA, internally divided over the plan even as its political authority on the Palestinian Street continues to diminish. To call the Gaza-first plan a long-shot is no understatement. But its advocates will likely...
...roll. They are convinced containment has not worked and that America's allies will never come aboard even after new U.N. inspections of Saddam's secret weapons caches-which Iraq said last week it was prepared to consider-inevitably fail. Deemed impractical "theologians" by the Powell camp, this faction is almost unconditionally pro-Israel and regards Saddam, not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as the more urgent regional and global threat...
...letter from leaders of the Tanzim faction of Fatah proclaiming the intent to pursue a unilateral cease-fire was published in the Israeli media this week. Although it was pooh-poohed by the security establishment and its purported cease-fire initiative suspended after the Gaza air raid, it contains some words that may soon begin to resonate with people on both sides of the divide: "Our hotels are empty, our restaurants deserted, our factories closed, our businesses bankrupt, and our children hungry... You can survive, for a time, with ten percent inflation, and growing unemployment, and an army of young...
...only be achieved through violence. But any emerging debate on the question has been stifled by Tuesday's air strike that killed Shehade and 14 others. Until the Palestinian street has satisfied its demand for revenge, further talk of ending attacks on Israelis, by Hamas or any other Palestinian faction, is unlikely...