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...government, which normally bankrolls Arafat for millions of dollars annually, has cut him off. More important, 400,000 Palestinians who worked in the gulf have lost their jobs since the crisis began, which means that they can no longer send money to their families in the West Bank and Gaza. To free up funds for the neediest in the occupied % territories, Arafat has ordered a 35% cutback in the P.L.O.'s more than $1 billion operating budget...
...credit as a mediator. "I am sure some will reward us for helping avoid a catastrophe," says Arafat adviser Bassam Abu Sharif. That may be wishful thinking. The peace package Arafat is touting directly links Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait to Israel's surrender of the West Bank and Gaza -- an unacceptable proposition for the U.S. And in the unlikely event that the Palestinians negotiate a settlement with Israel in the foreseeable future, Arafat might still lose out because his reputation among Arab and Western leaders was irreparably damaged...
...Tunis, Damascus and Amman. "All the Americans want is control of the oil," says Abdul Hamid Sadiq, a Syrian archaeologist. Principle, he adds, means nothing to a country that "ignored the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the occupation of Jerusalem and the daily maiming and killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank...
...disputes, ownership of oil fields and Iraqi access to the Persian Gulf was not new. But the mention of Israel seemed to contradict two months of indignant refusals from Bush to consider any link between Iraq's occupation of Kuwait and Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...
While Israeli officials said they accepted Bush's assurance that there was no linkage, some are worried that if Iraq is defeated, the U.S. will try to compensate its Arab allies at Israel's expense. Since Israel is most unlikely to pull out of the West Bank and Gaza, the U.S. is in danger of implicitly promising something that it will be unable to deliver. Alternatively, Washington risks enabling Saddam Hussein to pose as an Arab hero who finally forced action on behalf of the Palestinians...