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...make effective foreign policy in the Middle East, President Bush has had to learn to ignore the leadership of his own party on Capitol Hill. And it's not hard to see why: Last week, House Republican whip Tom DeLay proclaimed that the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights were not occupied, as U.S. foreign policy maintains, but are in fact part of Israel. Now House Republican leader Dick Armey has reportedly upped the ante, suggesting that Israel had no reason to hand over occupied territory to the Palestinians and that instead "the Palestinians should build their national home...
...Party - the majority of whose members want former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rather than Sharon as their candidate in the next election - is having none of it. The party committee looks set to adopt a resolution two weeks from now rejecting any Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. And Netanyahu has taken to the Israeli airwaves, mercilessly chiding Sharon for caving in to U.S. pressure to limit Israel's "Operation Defensive Shield." The intensifying leadership struggle between Sharon and Netanyahu may turn out to be a key factor shaping Israel's negotiating position in the weeks to come...
...Gaza's Gendarme Stakes his Claim...
...Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan is reported to have played a major role in negotiating an end to the siege of Yasser Arafat. Now he's calling on his leader to make big changes in the way that the Palestinian Authority does business. And you hardly have to read between the lines to know that one of those changes is to put Dahlan, rather than his West Bank rival Jibril Rajoub, in charge of the Palestinian security forces...
...build a wall - a wall so high not even the birds can fly over it - and permit the Palestinians to establish their state on the other side of it, as the Saudi peace plan suggests? Few terrorists succeed in breaking through the security fence that surrounds the Gaza Strip. In fact the only reason why Israel still faces problems in that part of the country is because, against all military logic, it insists on maintaining a presence on both sides of the fence instead of withdrawing to one side of it." He insisted earlier this week (see below) that...