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...Israel suspended military action against the PA on Wednesday to give Arafat 12 hours to arrest a list of 36 terror-accused supplied by Israel. That follows Tuesday's withering barrage against targets associated with Arafat, which destroyed his helicopters in Gaza and a building adjacent to his Ramallah office. But despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic...
...tougher U.S. stance is being criticized by Washington's Arab allies, who see Palestinian terror attacks as a symptom of the failure of the peace process to resolve the problem of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Strong U.S. support for Israeli action against the PA without concomitant pressure on Sharon for a return to the peace process is perceived in the Arab world as one-sided. And, most of the funding for Hamas, which maintains both a covert and deadly terrorist arm and a large education-and-welfare organization, comes from U.S.-aligned Gulf states...
...Right-wing members of Sharon's cabinet - and Benjamin Netanyahu, his popular challenger for the Likud leadership in the next election - are demanding action to destroy the PA and drive Arafat out of the West Bank and Gaza. Even in Washington, there is mounting skepticism over Arafat's value as a peace partner. The Palestinian leader appears to be drifting desperately, with nothing approximating a strategy and his notoriously autocratic leadership style making it difficult for more clear-sighted aides to effect policy, even as his political authority ebbs more and more visibly. And yet even inside Sharon's cabinet...
...Peres wants the cease fire, but his main thinking is that if Israel wants the PA to do something, Israel needs to give them some political concession in return that will allow Arafat to tell his people that they gain something from a cease fire. Peres is saying that Israel needs to show willingness to give something, but Sharon is saying he won't give anything. He's not willing to give some political hope for the Palestinians, or to encourage them to fulfill the cease-fire. Right now, it seems from the Palestinian point of view that they...
...polls show that the majority of people want to strike the PA to establish some kind of calm, but they also want a peace process. More than 60 percent remain prepared to make all kinds of concessions for peace in terms of issues like settlements, but they don't believe it's going to happen. So Sharon has far more political support than Peres in a direct contest between the two, but the ideas of Peres still have some support - there is still majority support in Israel for a peace process...