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...proceedings, Israel continues to demand their extradition, although the Palestinian Authority insists that under the Oslo agreements it is the proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused, but also the judges, prosecutor and the PA security men summarily appointed as 'lawyers' are all, in fact prisoners of the Israelis, right now. The Economist quotes a Fatah member saying that in the wake of the Israeli offensive, the PA itself is something of an illusion...
...that his group would refrain from sending bombers into Israel proper, focusing their attacks only on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And the Palestinian Authority appears to have extracted a similar promise from Hamas in order to avoid a Palestinian civil war - because the PA's very existence would be on the line if there were further attacks in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Palestinian leaders believe attacks on soldiers and settlers outside Israel's 1967 borders play quite differently in international public opinion. And besides, getting the militants to confine their attacks to the West Bank...
...Democratizing the PA, moreover, requires - as President Bush insisted - devolving power to the legislature, and new legislative elections are likely to reflect the views of an electorate considerably less inclined than Arafat is to accept U.S. and Israeli terms for peace. Even more so the local elections scheduled for December, since those are contested by Hamas, which boycotts "national" elections because it refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority. If statehood is made conditional on the emergence of a Palestinian leadership acceptable to Washington, then the "political horizon" Washington had hoped to establish through Bush's speech...
...Israel, and Israel plans to keep its troops in Palestinian towns until such attacks cease. Even if the Israelis take the President's address as a green light to expel Arafat, nobody believes there's going to be any Palestinian reform as long as Sharon's forces are inside PA territory. Bush did call for Israeli forces to withdraw to the positions they held before the onset of the current intifada, but he didn't specify any timetable. And plans to have Secretary of State Colin Powell fly out immediately to the region to press for implementation of the Bush...
...modified version of the 1967 borders and that it expects the help of the moderate Arab regimes in delivering Palestinian reform and a clampdown on violence. But the message to the Israelis has been that security comes first, and Sharon's demands for an end to violence and for PA reforms (in his mind, meaning the ouster of Arafat) are preconditions for any progress...