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Upon severing relations with Arafat last week, the Israelis announced that they would from now on make their own arrests of Palestinian fugitives. That means violating a key component of the Oslo peace accords, which forbid Israeli forces to enter territory under Authority control unless they are in "hot pursuit" of a wanted individual. But the right-wing Sharon has never liked the Oslo accords, which were negotiated under a dovish government. He immediately delivered on his vow, sending his troops, backed by tanks, into West Bank towns to arrest 50 suspected militants. For good measure, Israeli fighter planes...
...Princess Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby In August four Kings, five Queens, 10 princes and 12 princesses sat in Oslo Cathedral and watched Mette-Marit, single mother and self-confessed wild child, bring fairy tales to life by marrying Norway's Crown Prince Haakon. In a country where half the children are born out of wedlock, the blond beauty is truly a princess of the people. Haakon, who ignored criticism from conservatives and stuck to the love match, has proved himself a most princely stepfather...
...actually going to kill Arafat, but they were threatening him with something he's apt to dread as much: irrelevance. With the U.S. behind Israel, the threat was real, more real than any other Arafat has faced since his triumphant return home from exile in 1994, following the historic Oslo peace accords. Says a U.S. official: "We are now trying to create a moment of truth for Arafat...
Ever since Arafat went home in 1994 to run the self-governing body set up by the Oslo peace accords, Hamas has posed a threat to him as well as to Israel. Arafat lets Hamas recruit, build bombs, send out suicide missions, when it suits him. Hamas in turn has tolerated the Palestinian Authority in the name of unity, but has always "reserved the right to resist the occupation." Whenever Hamas' unyielding violence has challenged Arafat too hard, he has cracked down. He arrested hundreds of militants and removed firebrand Hamas preachers from their mosques in 1996, after a torrent...
...future to conduct diplomatic talks with. By no longer seeing Arafat as a partner, the government has effectively removed the political restraints it placed on its own military actions. The declaration also sent a clear message to Peres that, for all intent and purposes, this government views Oslo as dead and gone." And the Post hoped the international community would get that message...