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...tenuous claim that he had linked the school to his politics by letting Fox identify him as a U.S.F. professor. New U.S.F. president Judy Genshaft chafed as outsiders began to call her school "Jihad U" and "University of Suicidal Fanatics." Critics noted that al-Arian's brother-in-law, Mazen al-Najjar, a former U.S.F. professor cited by the Federal Government as a security threat based on "secret evidence," is in a Florida prison for overstaying his visa. Says Norman Gross, a prominent Tampa Jewish leader: "You have to put the good of the school and the country ahead...
...Palestinian side, there are no clear-cut successors to Arafat, but there are a number of capable ones. Abu Mazen, the chief Palestinian negotiator of the Oslo accords, is a sure-footed leader who has experience working with Israeli leaders. Another emerging candidate is Sari Nusseibeh, president of al-Quds University, whom Arafat has nominated to direct Jerusalem affairs. While he lacks a political base, Nusseibeh is a darling of the West, where he is regarded as a voice of reason within the Palestinian Authority...
...Arafat proclaimed his intention to fly the Palestinian flag over Jerusalem, but sent one of his lieutenants, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to negotiate a formula for "sharing" the Holy City that involved the Palestinian Authority setting up shop in the village of Abu Dis, which falls outside of Jerusalem's current municipal boundaries and declaring it their capital. When details of the plan leaked, Arafat denied and disowned it. And that may have been symbolic of his leadership style throughout the negotiation process...
...necessarily. Last week it came out that Sharon's son and a few aides had met a few Arafat aides in Vienna, for wide-ranging discussions. Palestinian sources told me the talks were "not 100 percent negative." And Palestinian negotiator Abu Mazen has spoken to Sharon twice in the last week. It may suit both sides to keep on talking, even if there's a change at the top in Israel...
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak prefers to do things himself ? and usually late at night. So does Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And so, although Barak sent his foreign mininster, David Levy, to start the historic "final status" peace talks with Palestinian negotiator Abu Mazen on Monday, he raised eyebrows in Israel Friday by holding a secret overnight meeting directly with Arafat to discuss some of those same final status issues. It's not unusual for leaders to intercede when talks between negotiators deadlock, but these talks had only just gotten started ? and Levy first heard of the meeting...