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...Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak holds talks with the Bush administration later this week, and plans to present detailed recommendations on a plan for peace via Palestinian statehood. Prime Minister Sharon is expected in Washington for consultations on Sunday. But the fine points of various contending peace plans and ideas on reforming the PA may now be overshadowed, once again, by the security crisis in Israel and the West Bank and a new siege of Ramallah. So instead of the diplomatic and security progress Washington had hoped for, the White House finds itself confronting d?j? vu. Israelis are being terrorized...
...been postponed - may simply drift into oblivion. The Israelis insist they won't talk to Arafat, and it remains abundantly clear that no Palestinian will step forward to negotiate with Israel. Much now depends on what transpires over the next week when Bush meets first with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and then with Sharon. Bush is unlikely to hear much that will please him. The question is, what will...
...Sharon and Arafat are really interested in ending the conflict, they don't need the help of Bush, special envoy Anthony Zinni, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Colin Powell or anyone else. Hey, Ariel and Yasser, pick up the phone! DENIS MORRISSEY Menlo Park, Calif...
...Washington may already be feeling the heat of Arab anger over its failed intervention. President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday called off a meeting with the homeward-bound Secretary of State, citing ill health and sending his foreign minister instead. Mubarak's diplomatic snubs are typically packaged in claims of being otherwise indisposed, although Powell read no negative message into the Egyptian president's begging off. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is meeting with President Bush Wednesday, and is expected to register Arab disappointment with the administration's peace efforts so far. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah is expected...
...would it begin? In one grim scenario, it would start with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who is in the most exposed position of all. His controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty...