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...latest cease-fire effort plunges him into yet another strategic crisis. While many of those who have waged the intifada on the ground these past nine months believe that a long-term, low-intensity war will eventually drive the Israeli soldiers and settlers out of the West Bank and Gaza - as it did in Lebanon - Arafat's agenda has been somewhat different. He can only achieve his goal of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza through negotiation with Israel and the international community, and so as much he chants the slogans of struggle he has, throughout, looked...
...interests of the Palestinian people," after the Europeans made it clear that funding for Arafat's Palestinian Authority would be withheld if he failed to take steps against terrorism. But the Palestinian leader has a problem, of course, because while a recent opinion poll in the West Bank and Gaza found that 76 percent of Palestinians support suicide bombings inside Israel, only a minority would give Arafat's notoriously corrupt administration a positive rating...
...Problems for Arafat But the cease-fire may be under more immediate threat, as Sharon faces a growing chorus of Israelis, led by the right-wing settler leadership in the West Bank and Gaza, demanding tough action in response to Friday's bombing, while Arafat's adherence to a cease-fire makes his own political position even more perilous. He has been forced, as he put it, "in the higher national interest" to essentially call off an intifada that has claimed almost 500 Palestinian lives without realizing any tangible gains. Indeed, on the weekend that he made his call...
...harsh sanctions imposed by Israel on the West Bank and Gaza over the weekend making it harder for Arafat to sell a cease fire to his own people...
...problem with Arafat, and we understand that, but what's the point of punishing the man and the woman on the street? America doesn't understand that. Here we are talking about people who have been put under a difficult economic situation. You can say that people in Gaza are starving. Not only Sudan people and African people are starving. People in Gaza are starving. Does the American administration understand that? I doubt it. They think that they have to deal with Arafat or one of his security men, and the solution will be available. That's not the case...