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...made clear their disdain for their leadership's calls for restraint in order to revive a peace process. Palestinian security structures, meanwhile, are the subject of intensive reform and resuscitation efforts led by the U.S., while Israeli troops continue to maintain effective security control over the formerly off-limits PA-run towns of the West Bank. So, while the Israelis may not have been seen around Arafat's compound for almost a month before Thursday, they've been in and out of Nablus, Jenin, Hebron and other Palestinian towns throughout that time...
...Megiddo attack highlights the limits of current mediation efforts by the U.S. and its allies. CIA director George Tenet has been meeting with Palestinian officials this week to press for the creation of a single PA security force dedicated to clamping down on terror attacks, and warning that if he fails to create an effective deterrent to terror attacks, Arafat will be left alone to face the wrath of Ariel Sharon. But the Palestinian leader insists that this will be possible only when the Israelis withdraw from PA territory. The PA roundly condmened the Megiddo attack, and ordered a roundup...
...lived across the hall from each other in Matthews that year, say it’s difficult “to pinpoint exactly when” they started dating. The summer after freshman year Marks and Zacharias returned to their respective homes in Washington, D.C. and Reading, Pa. They weren’t deterred by the distance. Every weekend they would take turns driving 150 miles to see each other...
...Washington continues to push for an immediate resumption of political dialogue in tandem with efforts to stop terror attacks and to reform the PA. Sharon refuses deal with an Arafat-led PA, and Israeli officials have openly questioned the wisdom of Bush administration efforts to rebuild PA security structures as long as they're answerable to Arafat. Still, Arafat's not retiring anytime soon, and when he met with CIA director George Tenet on Tuesday to discuss PA reform the Palestinian leader emphasized that progress depends on Israeli forces withdrawing from PA territory - something Israel has shown no inclination...
...Although Arafat looks set to respond this week to calls from the PA legislature for the appointment of a new cabinet, it appears that the political coalition on which it will be based will be exactly the same as the current one. On the ground, ordinary Palestinians are less concerned with the composition of Arafat's cabinet than with the impact of Israel's continuing economic stranglehold and military operations. And on the Israeli side, too, the signs are that nobody's holding their breath for the outcome of the Bush administration's efforts. The ongoing deployment of Israeli troops...