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Su’s family is asking that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent in her name to the Anna Su Memorial Fund, c/o Irene Su, 106 Ava Court, Plymouth Meeting, PA...
...mean Arafat's demise. Nor was undermining Abbas especially difficult, given how little the new prime minister managed to win from the Israelis by way of easing the occupation. Arafat blessed the cease-fire Abbas had negotiated with Palestinian radical groups, but held tightly to the reins of the PA security services when the prime minister sought to consolidate them under his control in line with the "roadmap." When the struggle for control came to a head, Abbas was branded a collaborator by Arafat's grassroots supporters - a charge that made his position untenable given Israel's continued war against...
...Israeli media report that Israeli officials sense a softening in the Bush administration's opposition to such a move, and Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz will visit Washington next week to petition the Bush administration to lift its prohibition against physically removing Arafat. It's unlikely, however, that the PA would survive such a move - and Qureia appeared to be warning that the Palestinians themselves won't try to keep it going if the leadership of the PLO is excluded. And as Israel discovered during the 1970s and 1980s, no Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza will step...
...Still, Israel insist it will not work with a PA government answerable to Arafat, and if violence escalates it may try to expel him. If the PA collapsed as a result, Israel would then have to resume the occupier's responsibilities in the Palestinian cities of the West Bank and Gaza. And whereas it has sent its troops on raids in many of those cities in the course of the current intifada, it has studiously avoided long-term deployments or resuming responsibility for civil administration. Even hawkish Israelis who have no intention of surrendering the hundreds of settlements Israel...
...collapse of the PA would not only raise the specter of an endless bout of bloodletting; it also potentially puts the very notion of a two-state solution to the conflict beyond reach. That would leave Israel in permanent control of millions of Palestinians with no democratic rights in the state that governs them - a situation dovish Israeli commentators warn would be akin to apartheid South Africa. Even Sharon himself warned his countrymen in May, "You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation. To hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation, I believe that is a terrible...