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...opposition to Israel harming or removing Arafat, the cabinet?s decision was simply an in-principle one that would not be implemented right now. For Arafat, however, the latest Israeli threat proved to be an unlikely boost, provoking massive street demonstrations in his support in Ramallah and Gaza, and forcing the region?s preeminent moderate Arab leader, Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to warn that dire consequences would follow an Arafat expulsion and that - notwithstanding U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline him - ''no Palestinian prime minister will succeed without the help of Arafat.? Even Sharon?s former foreign minister, Shimon...
...Palestinian Authority, which would be unlikely to survive his departure. Simply put, no one would be willing to negotiate in his stead, and the PA would be left without a functioning government. That would force Israel to resume the responsibilities of the occupying power in the West Bank and Gaza, including civil administration - in the face of a population boiling with hostility and various militias and terror organizations more than ready to fight new Israeli incursions. The Bush administration is alarmed by the prospect of not just a new wave of bloodletting between Israelis and Palestinians, but also the collapse...
...continued war against Palestinian militants and the absence he felt of vital support from the U.S. And so Abbas simply walked away from what most observers had concluded months ago was an impossible mission: bridging the chasm between Yasser Arafat and the grassroots militants of the West Bank and Gaza, on the one hand, and Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush on the other...
...Sharon's preferred method of dealing with Arafat, in the new situation, may be to expel him from the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli media report that Israeli officials sense a softening in the Bush administration's opposition to such a move, and Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz will visit Washington next week to petition the Bush administration to lift its prohibition against physically removing Arafat. It's unlikely, however, that the PA would survive such a move - and Qureia appeared to be warning that the Palestinians themselves won't try to keep it going if the leadership...
...Israel insist it will not work with a PA government answerable to Arafat, and if violence escalates it may try to expel him. If the PA collapsed as a result, Israel would then have to resume the occupier's responsibilities in the Palestinian cities of the West Bank and Gaza. And whereas it has sent its troops on raids in many of those cities in the course of the current intifada, it has studiously avoided long-term deployments or resuming responsibility for civil administration. Even hawkish Israelis who have no intention of surrendering the hundreds of settlements Israel has built...