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...statement was released following the meeting, but even on Thursday White House spokesman Ari Fleischer appeared to endorse Israel's confining of Arafat to his Ramallah office by surrounding it with tanks. Where Washington had traditionally condemned Israeli incursions into PA-controlled territory as counterproductive, Fleischer said "the president understands the reason that Israel has taken the action that it takes, and it is up to Chairman Arafat to demonstrate leadership to combat terrorism...
...Friday's suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv, in which 24 Israelis were wounded, followed by Israeli air strikes on PA security buildings in Gaza and the West Bank, served as a vivid reminder of the recent sharp increase in violence. The three-week lull that followed Arafat's December 16 cease-fire speech has given way to an almost daily exchange of Palestinian terror attacks and Israeli assassinations of Palestinian radicals. And the Bush administration continues to hold Arafat primarily responsible...
...Washington's frustration over the Palestinian leader's failure to rein in militants reached boiling point three weeks ago when Israel intercepted an arms shipment allegedly bound for the PA from Iran. The U.S. has demanded that Arafat provide a satisfactory explanation of that incident, and has written to the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia offering evidence of PA involvement in the transaction and urging pressure on Arafat. But Bush is unlikely to recruit any Arab support against Arafat, for the simple reason that the consensus even among U.S. allies in the Arab world is that Sharon...
...terrorism that must be unconditionally eliminated; the Arabs see it as an inevitable and even legitimate Palestinian response in the absence of peaceful channels to achieve Palestinian statehood. Arab public opinion, subject to daily TV footage of Israeli tanks reoccupying Palestinian towns, is unlikely to look askance at any PA efforts to acquire antitank rockets...
...Despite Sharon's vow to teach Arafat the lesson of his life, the Israeli leader has few good options. While another round of attacks on PA targets will punish Arafat for failing to stop the latest attacks, they are unlikely to change the basic deadlock. Few Israeli commentators these days believe that, almost one year after being elected on promises to stamp out Palestinian violence and ensure Israeli security, Sharon has a political or military program that can transform the violent face-off into a decisive defeat of the intifada. While the term is still used, the current violence...