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...Washington appeared more mindful of the diplomatic danger following Monday's Israeli attacks on Gaza, publicly cautioning Israel against an "excessive" response and privately, but through the New York Times, castigating it for the same. The attempt to assume a more even-handed posture may reflect an attempt to shore up Washington's own diplomatic standing in a region where it is regarded as overwhelmingly partial to Israel. But the angry men and women on the Arab street make no distinction between Israel and the U.S., and that makes it even more difficult for Mubarak or Jordan's King Abdullah...
...Arab world may be too little, too late. Defense Secretary William Cohen met Wednesday with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and implored him to reverse Cairo's decision to recall its ambassador from Israel. But having made the dramatic diplomatic gesture in protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza Monday night in retaliation for the bombing of a school bus, the Egyptian leader can't very easily reverse it now - not even under pressure from the U.S., which pays Egypt some $2 billion a year to be Israel's friend. Egypt's move, which caused shock and consternation in Israeli...
...would never pass unpunished by Israel, which is why efforts to forge an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire have once again been confounded. Two Israeli teachers were killed and nine people - at least five of them children - were wounded when a mortar shell exploded near a school bus in the Gaza Strip on Monday. It was the most serious attack against Israeli settlers during the current violence, and although three different groups claimed responsibility, the blast follows a pattern of similar attacks in the area by the Islamic Jihad, an Islamist faction opposed to the peace process. But despite denials...
...Gaza attack also highlights the rationale for the unilateral "divorce" option touted by Israeli officials in recent weeks, in which Israel simply withdraws from those parts of the West Bank and Gaza that are difficult to defend, breaking economic ties and giving Arafat a patchwork Palestinian state. For Barak, ultimately, the principle of risking soldiers' lives in order to protect a handful of settlers deep inside hostile territory outside the borders of Israel proper is unappealing, and he's long advocated consolidating settlements in areas adjacent to Israel that can be annexed in order to create new, defensible borders...
...have been openly defied, not only by the Islamist militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad but also by the rank-and-file militiamen of his own Fatah organization. Fatah had called for a mass uprising beginning Wednesday to drive Israeli troops and settlers out of the West Bank and Gaza...