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...From the bottom of our hearts, we are sorry." EHUD OLMERT, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, apologizing to Egypt after tank soldiers on the border in Gaza shot and killed three Egyptian policeman they mistook for Palestinian militants...
...bluff--though Israel was happy to ignore Arafat's legitimacy as elected President of the Palestinian Authority. A democratic vote could empower Palestinians with the mandate to make peace. And that could present the Bush Administration with an opportunity to press Sharon into expanding his unilateral withdrawal from Gaza into a negotiated pullback from much of the West Bank...
...Arab world as properly the responsibility of the Arab regimes. But with their failed military campaigns to destroy the Jewish State in 1948, 1967 and 1973 leaving the vast majority of Palestinians living either as refugees in the Arab world or under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, Arafat personified a determination among Palestinians to take charge of their own fate...
...could claim headlines, but ultimately do little to displace Israeli power in pursuit of the goal of Palestinian sovereignty. In 1988, for the first time, Arafat led his organization to advocate a two-state solution to the conflict, based on creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza rather than insisting on the implausible goal of ?liberating? all of historic Palestine. This apparent trimming of PLO strategic ambitions was merely an acknowledgment of a new reality on the ground - the "intifada" uprising, that had begun a year earlier, had firmly shifted the epicenter of Palestinian hopes back...
Israel is facing a power struggle of its own. Sharon won Knesset approval for his Gaza withdrawal plan with the support of left-wing and Arab parties. But his right-wing bloc split. The crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism...