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...reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians and set back U.S. plans to reinvigorate the comatose peace process. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has suffered yet another blow to his fragile authority, cornered dangerously between militant Islamists and enraged Israelis. Also in political trouble within his ruling coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now probably faces more pressure to move further to the right...
...terror strike last Wednesday was the worst since Netanyahu came to office 13 months ago, vowing he could deliver progress toward peace together with the security Israelis crave. While he has borne much of the criticism for stalling peace negotiations, he laid the blame for the bombing squarely on Arafat, who has lately made vigilance against Islamist militants a low priority. Within hours of the blast, Netanyahu responded with a program of unprecedentedly tough retaliatory measures. These amounted, in Arafat's view, to "a declaration of war," a characterization Netanyahu didn't even bother to dispute. "You can't have...
...Arafat the cascade of events felt like an avalanche. By being lax on security issues, he had flirted with trouble, and the extremists had taken advantage. Before the bombing, the U.S. was prepared to lean on Netanyahu to make concessions that would restart negotiations, but now, suddenly, the full weight of American pressure has been shifted onto the Palestinians. In addition, the sting of Israel's reprisals comes at a time when Arafat's government is squirming under revelations of corruption...
...peace are adept at timing their deadly attacks to coincide with the resumption of momentum. Only two days before the bombing, it looked as if relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians were moving back to normal after a four-month chill. The standstill had been provoked by Netanyahu's decision to build a new Jewish settlement in mostly Arab East Jerusalem, and that in turn led Arafat to restrict security cooperation, curtailing intelligence sharing and easing up on commitments to collect weapons, jail militants and stop calls to violence. On the Monday before the bombing, Israeli and Palestinian officials...
JERUSALEM: The war of words between Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat continues to heat up, and US special envoy Dennis Ross is flying in to cool things down. He may have his work cut out -- a very real mini-war has already exploded along Israel's northern border...