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...INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Map: The Planned Barrier Mideast: The Four Sticking Points Map: Mideast Flash Points Israel: A Land Divided...
...RELATED COVER STORIES Arafat: All Boxed In Apr. 8, 2002 Mideast Covers Bush & the Mideast Mar. 25, 2002 ----------------- Lost in the Rubble? Oct. 23, 2000 ----------------- Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat...
...certainly managed to come out on top in his recent dealings with the Bush administration; despite the recent U.S. interventions to resolve the standoffs in Ramallah and Bethlehem, the Bush administration's talk of reviving political negotiations appears to be back on hold. The see-sawing battle over Mideast policy in the administration seems to be tilting again towards the hawks, with President Bush, during this week's White House visit, appearing to endorse Sharon's position that peace talks will have to wait until security had been restored and the PA thoroughly reformed. That allows Sharon to defer...
...siege of Ramallah showed, any attempt by the Israelis to sideline Arafat actually has the opposite effect, forcing even his staunchest Palestinian and Arab critics to rally behind him. Moreover, the Bush administration is keenly aware that the political-military crisis that drew the U.S. reluctantly back into Mideast mediation is in no sense reducible to one man, and Washington remains convinced, for now, that Arafat's ouster is more likely to exacerbate than to resolve the conflict...
...INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Map: The Planned Barrier Mideast: The Four Sticking Points Map: Mideast Flash Points Israel: A Land Divided...