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...pressure from the West to ease tensions with India, has supported Hizbul Mujahideen's cease-fire and decision to talk peace with New Delhi. Still, there may be elements in his security forces that oppose such a dialogue. Indeed, while Hizbul remains a predominantly Kashmiri organization that is mostly nationalist in character, its rivals, such as Lakshar-e-Toiba (suspected of being behind Tuesday's massacre), Al Badr, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others are essentially Pakistani organizations, whose members include large number of Punjabis and Afghanis committed to a "jihad" against India. And the fact that they may have some...
...longer a Cold War entitlement - aid now is dependent on easing tensions with India and reining in terrorism. For India, there's the simple fact that the insurgency in Kashmir is bleeding its defense budget, while a military solution remains as elusive as ever. And Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist government is better placed than any of its predecessors to open such a dialogue without being accused of treachery. Still, as Tuesday's slaughter demonstrates, the search for a solution in Kashmir may be a prolonged pilgrimage...
...sure which legacy he wants most. Age 70 and ailing, presumably from a nervous disorder--Parkinson's, some say--Arafat is desperate to preside over a newly born, independent Palestinian state. But he has also seized upon a competing priority--preserving his place in history as a steadfast nationalist hero. To reach agreement with Israel on the terms of statehood would require profound compromises on what have long been almost sacred Palestinian demands. Arafat's great fear--his "obsession," says an aide--is that if he makes these concessions, he will be pilloried as a traitor to his people instead...
...Cloaking himself in the nationalist mantle may also help Arafat sweeten the odor arising out of the recent release of his Palestinian Authority's report to its donors, which includes potentially damaging disclosures of development money rerouted into a slush fund, a $60 million stake in a West Bank casino project and $18 million in profits derived from its monopoly on cement. With so little of the billions pumped into the Palestinian territories over the past six years having found their way into infrastructure and job creation (despite the minting of a few Palestinian millionaires), it may be fair...
...generation and Western-educated, a healer rather than a warrior by profession and a Netizen rather than a nationalist by instinct, but don't expect to see Bashar Assad even talking to Israel any time soon. No matter how much Washington cajoles, peace with the old enemy isn't going to feature on the agenda of a presumptive president whose priority will be political and even, perhaps, physical survival...