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...Arab states for their ideas about a deal. The ideas include the deployment of U.S. monitors and an international fund to rebuild Palestine. Even more significant, the U.S. is leaning toward endorsing plans that would require the handover of land currently occupied by Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and would extend international recognition to an independent Palestinian state before a permanent peace is reached. "The U.S. thinks this is interesting and potentially useful," says a senior State Department official. If these elements come together, officials say, they would probably lead to an international peace conference--involving Israeli, Palestinian...
...Palestinians want full sovereignty over all the West Bank and Gaza Strip land they inhabited before Israel's victory in the 1967 war. It might be possible for Israel to give those lands back--as it did with Sinai in 1979--if it were not for the 163 Jewish settlements now dotting the land. Since the peace process began in 1993, the number of Jewish settlers in the territories has doubled, to 214,000. Before Sharon's latest military incursion, the Palestinians had won full control of just 18% of the West Bank, scattered in a noncontiguous patchwork...
Israeli-Palestinian violence flared anew Friday, amid growing Arab frustration over what they see as the Bush administration's failure to restrain Ariel Sharon. Twelve Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza since Thursday night, as gunmen have launched new attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers there, and Israeli tanks invaded the Rafah refugee camp. Gaza had been relatively quiet over the past month as violence raged on the West Bank, but Palestinian leaders there may be inclined to take the initiative right now, which would stoke the regional political fires that first forced the Bush administration to intervene...
...shared by many Israelis, all the way up to cabinet level. The Bush administration sees Arafat's refusal to make a strategic choice to renounce violence as the core of the problem; the Arabs see Sharon's reluctance to renounce Israel's claims to the West Bank and Gaza as the primary obstacle to peace...
...terrorism, and have supported Sharon's military response and his goal of ousting Arafat. The doves believe Palestinian terrorism can only be ended once Palestinians are able to see a clear path to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The hawks are leery of "rewarding terrorism" by reopening political negotiations; the doves warn that backing Sharon's offensive puts the U.S. at odds with the entire Arab world, undermining its war on terrorism. So, while President Bush's comments two weeks ago that combined denunciations of Arafat and terrorism with calls...