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The Tenet agreement and the Mitchell Report create pressure on Sharon to offer Arafat something in return for a cease-fire, and that's something to which he's very opposed, because he sees it as rewarding the violence of the last nine months. Also, that concession would involve a...
Sharon's visit is the third by an Israeli leader to the Bush White House in five months. Senator George Mitchell, whose report is the centerpiece of the currenet U.S. cease-fire effort, publicly called on President Bush today to meet with Yasser Arafat. Will President Bush take his advice...
I was surprised that Mitchell chose to do that, even though there's a sense in which the Palestinians have felt long-aggrieved that they've been kept away from the Bush White House. It's remarkable how much the Palestinians looked forward to Bush coming in after all the...
The administration is unlikely to make any decisions on this score until Powell returns, and the fact that Mitchell has publicly called for it makes them less likely to do it in the near term. In the end, it will depend on the situation on the ground.
Still, they believe the situation has changed somewhat since the disco bombing, and there have been a lot more actors involved in building this cease-fire - the Russians, the Europeans, Kofi Annan. The Bush administration has taken a more multilateral approach - their more humble goals make them less leery of...