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...short period shows that these borders are perfectly defensible, especially for a country that has been receiving billions in American aid. Krauthammer should face the fact that peace will not come until Israel ends its military occupation, economic strangling and blatant human-rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza. NASIM FARACH Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
...appears to be with Zinni. A growing number of right-wing politicians want Israel to put an end to Arafat's regime. According to an Israeli newspaper poll, 66% of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party believe that Arafat should be kicked out of the West Bank and Gaza; 36% favor his assassination...
...government) proclaimed the shooter a “hero.” And Arafat himself told his followers, “we will make the lives of the infidels hell,” a clear reference to Israelis. One of Arafat’s top lieutenants, Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan, was recently quoted as saying that Palestinian suicide bombings against Israeli civilians are a “legitimate form of self-defense.” Most recently, when a Hamas suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis during a Passover meal on March 27, Arafat, in a phone interview with...
...peace plan was never going to tempt Sharon - the Arab consensus is that peace won't be possible while he remains Prime Minister, an inversion of the widely held Israeli belief about Arafat - it does restate the question of Israel's long-term intentions for the West Bank and Gaza...
...Sharon had opposed the Oslo peace process all along, precisely because he believed the territories captured in the 1967 war are essential to Israel's ability to defend itself - and Oslo was supposed to negotiate turning most of the West Bank and Gaza into a Palestinian state. But many of Israel's leading politicians and generals fear that holding onto those territories may represent an even greater threat to Israel's security. Sharon looks set to commit tens of thousands of troops to "pacify" the 3 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, and who are overwhelmingly...