Word: intifadas
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...find their own way back to the Tenet cease-fire, pressure on Washington to take a more forceful role may begin to grow as the daily escalation of violence makes each side's path back to the cease-fire all the more treacherous. Since the outbreak of the current intifada, both sides have couched the terms of their confrontations in terms of existing political agreements and cease-fires, even as those appeared to have diminishing relevance to the daily clashes. The idea that Arafat would round up terror suspects on his side of the line while the Israelis would keep...
...current Israeli-Palestinian conflict precludes such support, almost by definition. No wonder, then, that Saddam makes a point of sending thousands of dollars to the family of every Palestinian slain in confrontations with the Israelis. Because the Iraqi leader may well have been the biggest beneficiary of the intifada...
...against Israel and create a basis for stable coexistence between two states. A unilateral "divorce" would leave many of those claims unresolved, and create a Palestinian state that served simply as a platform for war against Israel. Indeed, the only Arab leader to have made any gains from the intifada has been Saddam Hussein, who has styled himself the savior of the Palestinians, not least through substantial financial contributions to families of sons "martyred" in the intifada. Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian group who claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage in Jerusalem, actually termed the blast a "gift" to Saddam. Under...
...Bush's dilemma, of course, is minor when compared with Sharon's. Six months ago, the Likud leader won a landslide election victory on promises to end the intifada by getting tough. Yet Sunday's shooting attack that wounded eight Israelis in downtown Tel Aviv was a dramatic reminder that Israelis are essentially as insecure now as when they elected Sharon. And the current situation, in which one or two Israelis are killed every week in the West Bank or Gaza may be politically unsustainable in the long run for the Israeli government. After all, it was the deaths...
...Arafat's problem is that the longer the intifada persists, the more remote becomes his cherished Palestinian state - and his own relevance to the future of his people. His own diplomatic and political standing today, and the very raison d'?tre of the power structure atop which he sits, has been the peace process and turning the PLO from a liberation movement into a government. Without the promise of achieving a viable state through negotiation, he has very little to offer Palestinians in exchange for cooperating with the Israelis. And it's that awareness that helps explain his skittish shuttling...