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...goods last year. But many companies hope to make fresh inroads because duties on industrial and agricultural goods will disappear over the next decade. U.S. wheat and barley growers and telecommunication and pharmaceutical companies are expected to benefit, as are small firms such as Quigley of Doylestown, Pa., maker of Cold-Eeze lozenges; like many companies, it has sought contacts in Jordan but conducted no business there yet. U.S. workers might also benefit as some American companies that manufacture goods for export to the Middle East shift their plants from Europe back home to take advantage of the agreement...
After a Palestinian assailant murdered Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat a stark choice: hand over the murderers or pay the price. In the days since the first-ever assassination of a cabinet minister by a Palestinian, Arafat has not sufficiently cooperated with Israel in tracking down, arresting and handing over the suspects...
...Israel's reluctance to settle for Arafat imprisoning Zeevi's killers is hardly surprising. The PA has found it increasingly difficult to sustain action against Palestinian militants during the current intifada - local Fatah militia leader Atif Abbayat who was killed last Thursday, for example, had been arrested by the PA only weeks earlier, but was then released after his supporters threatened to resume firing on the Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. The U.S. has repeatedly called on Arafat to take stronger steps to rein in militants...
...needs Arafat to crack down on the militants and Israel to show more restraint. And on both ends, that's a tough call: Arafat will be hard-pressed to sustain any clampdown if he has nothing to show for it, even more so while Israeli forces remain inside PA territory. Ordinary Palestinians are unlikely to accept the arrest of Zeevi's assassins while Israeli forces continue to conduct assassinations of their own. And while Sharon's Labor Party partners may wring their hands and threaten to quit the government if the current military deployments in PA areas are maintained...
...long as Peres believes in negotiating with Arafat, he has plenty of reason for concern over strategies that erode the Palestinian leader's domestic political standing. Repeated incursions into PA territory may raise pressure on Arafat to do more against the militants, but they also undermine his ability to show Palestinians that what was achieved by negotiating with Israel in the Oslo process was an end to Israel's occupation of those areas. Those perceptions ultimately reinforce the claims of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militants who oppose a resumption of negotiations and advocate guerrilla war. Still, Israeli public opinion...