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...that have dominated the week's headlines. And as hundreds of Israeli tanks rolled back into the cities of the West Bank and the Middle East crisis threatened to spiral out of control, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was that person. He appeared to hold in his hands the fate of the entire region - and perhaps the fate of the U.S. war on terrorism...
...life of their own and change the terms of grand strategic debate. That's the rationale for the settlement movement - to stake an Israeli claim on the lands captured in 1967 by simply seizing them and setting down roots rather than awaiting the outcome of any negotiations. Today the fate of those same settlements is a key point of contention in Israeli-Palestinian relations...
...Walking Ariel Sharon back from the current escalation won't be easy. One of the toughest issues will be the fate of Arafat. Sharon has made isolating Arafat a key objective of the current operation, and has openly declared his preference for exiling the Palestinian leader. On Wednesday the Israeli leader even turned down a U.S. request for General Zinni to be allowed to visit Arafat in his besieged compound, although he relented on Thursday. Despite its exasperation and fury at Arafat, the Bush administration has maintained until now that Arafat shouldn't be exiled because he remains an indispensable...
...only Arafat's personal fate that raises questions about whether Israel's "Operation Defensive Wall" leads back to a cease-fire and negotiations. Israeli officials have made clear they're after a number of Arafat's top aides previously considered immune. Top of the wanted list is Marwan Barghouti, leader of Fatah's Tanzim militia and the Palestinian leader with the most influence over the gunmen on the streets of the West Bank. That may be exactly why Israel wants him behind bars, but the reason he's previously been left untouched by the Israelis is that it's also...
...even greater concern for the Bush administration than Arafat's eventual whereabouts may be the fate of the Palestinian Authority. It was threatening to collapse even before the latest invasion, and even if it manages to survive the current Israeli onslaught, its ability to ensure order will be considerably diminished. Israel, of course, will be reluctant to leave behind a power vacuum in West Bank towns that have cradled Palestinian militancy, and that suggests a de facto reoccupation lasting a lot longer than Powell is predicting...