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...from reading the American daily papers, one would never know that the policies of successive Israeli governments have imposed apartheid on the West Bank and Gaza. Israelis live in relative luxury in their settlements while many Palestinians live in squalor. Israelis have complete freedom of movement, which is protected by armed soldiers, while most Palestinians are imprisoned in their neighborhoods, and those who wish to travel further must risk humiliation and harassment at checkpoints. And this was the norm during peacetime; since protests and fighting erupted six months ago, the Palestinian condition has deteriorated further. But this is not what...
...Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meet senior Arafat-aide Nabil Shaath in the Greek capital for what Palestinian sources described as a "frank, difficult exchange of views." But the danger of shooting and talking at the same time was highlighted overnight when Israeli troops at the Erez border crossing into Gaza fired on a convoy carrying Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan and other officials returning from a meeting with their Israeli counterparts...
...What the summit demonstrated is that things would be going better for Iraq if it wasn't for Saddam. True, he has been getting richer, thanks to snowballing illegal trade across Iraq's borders with Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iran. The intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is another godsend. With ever louder public demands for an end to Iraqi suffering, Arab states are violating a ban on commercial air travel with regular flights to Baghdad...
...rein to Islamist terror groups operating in areas under its control. That's hardly surprising. The incentive for Arafat to restrain Hamas and Islamic Jihad had been the peace process itself, and the possibility it created that dialogue could result in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza being replaced with a Palestinian state. That process collapsed last year at Camp David, and Sharon has refused to countenance new negotiations within the Oslo framework. Under those circumstances, it's hard to imagine Arafat finding cause to send his security forces after the Islamists. For the Palestinians peace...
...providing a point of consensus to paper over their sharp differences over how to end sanctions against Iraq. As expected, members moved to revive an economic boycott of Israel, promised financial aid to the Palestinians and called for an international force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. The latter, of course, is anathema to Israel, and the U.S. on Tuesday night used its veto power kill a U.N. Security Council resolution mandating such a force. The extent to which that alienates the Arab allies Washington needs to hold its line against Iraq will depend largely...