Word: imperiling
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Ariel Sharon has ended the first phase of his West Bank offensive, but its fallout will shake up the region for months to come - and imperil U.S. efforts to rekindle a peace process. Israel withdrew its tanks to the edge of more Palestinian towns Monday, although it maintained its sieges of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Israeli forces didn't fully leave the area; instead, they withdrew to self-declared buffer zones, from which they have continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude...
Allowing those sentiments to take root in an independent Palestine will only prolong the war between Arabs and Israelis, further imperil the existence of the Jewish homeland and create more enemies of the U.S. That is one reason the Administration is trying so hard to find a pathway to peace. Its strategy is still coming into focus. Says a senior White House aide: "We're in an atmosphere where everyone is waiting for someone else to go first." The first big breakthrough Powell needs is to convince Sharon and Arafat that they can wait no longer. --With reporting by Matt...
...issue stokes the fires of the Arab street as fiercely as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians does - that's why it takes center-stage, for example, the propaganda of Osama bin Laden. As the situation deteriorates, Abdullah is worried that failure to resolve that conflict soon may imperil the ability of moderate Arab regimes to work with the U.S. in the region, and eventually even their own survival in the face of extremist challenges...
...says it has no intention of engaging in nation-building in Afghanistan, and yet it can't allow the collapse of the new regime it has installed in Kabul. Nothing would boost the fortunes of the Taliban and al-Qaeda - and imperil the security of U.S. forces in Afghanistan - more than a slide back into civil war. And the obvious fragility of the Karzai government in the face of an increasingly perilous security situation may force the U.S. military, despite its desire to steer clear of Afghanistan's warlord rivalries, to become increasingly involved in actions that involve neither...
...government may be ready to meet them head on, believing that international public opinion will be solidly behind Israel in confronting Palestinian groups pressing their case by force of arms. But the collapse of the latest cease-fire effort threatens not only to sideline Arafat, but also to imperil U.S. Middle East policy, which remains premised on the need to stabilize the region through peace efforts...