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...After weeks of fierce infighting, Arafat has refused to endorse the cabinet picked by Abu Mazen - and failure to reach agreement by deadline will mean that the prime minister-designate strongly backed by the main sponsors of the road map for Israeli-Palestinian peace (the U.S. and Europe) will step aside, and Arafat will pick a new prime minister. With the Bush administration having made the swearing-in of Abu Mazen a precondition for releasing the long-awaited road map to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, his defeat by Arafat would be a disaster for U.S. and British plans...
...process between Israelis and Palestinians would be "front and center" once Iraq was settled. When that happened, he said, the Administration would have to make some "tough choices," which presumably meant that it would apply pressure on the Israeli government. Since then, Bush has promised to publish a "road map" to peace once a new Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority has assembled his government. When it was written last year, the road map contemplated the establishment of an independent Palestine...
...Bush serious? London thinks he is. "One thing that has been made clear to us privately in the last few weeks," says a senior British official, "is that Bush is absolutely committed not just to publishing the road map but to implementing it, despite the political pressures. He certainly gives us the impression that he isn't just saying it to shut us up." Skeptics will say the British have to say that; otherwise, their claim to have any influence in Washington would lie empty. But an American official who has been privately doubtful of the Administration's commitment...
...jukebox that lets passengers create customized playlists culled from hundreds of music albums. Using touch-screen monitors mounted on the back of each seat, travelers will also be able to surf 24 channels of live satellite TV, challenge their seatmates to multiplayer video games from Nintendo and map the airplane's exact location--zooming in to street-level detail on the terrain below...
Freezing settlement activity and dismantling outposts in the first stage of negotiations, as the road map states, would be an unmistakable indication that Israel means business—and would do it without endangering Israeli security. Combined with a simultaneous Palestinian commitment to take all possible steps to crack down on terrorism, a settlement freeze would be serious progress towards a final settlement...