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...exaggeration. Far from being inclined toward war, all 22 Arab states agreed in March, during an Arab summit in Beirut, to offer Israel "normal relations" in exchange for a withdrawal from the territories Israel captured in 1967. When U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell shuttled between Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Damascus last week, it was a sign that the U.S. wants to prevent Middle East chaos. But with Powell failing to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire, there is rising concern that the latest crisis may be threatening other Western and American interests, including the stability of Arab allies, hopes...
...expect a breakthrough. Israeli officials say they plan to hold their positions in Ramallah and Bethlehem until the surrender of Palestinian militants believed to be holed up there. And even after Israeli troops leave, they may go back into West Bank towns to stage "pinpoint operations" against terrorists trying to regroup. But the Israeli offensive may only invite a more savage Palestinian response. Militants belonging to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades told TIME they are preparing to avenge last week's arrest of top Arafat deputy Marwan Barghouti. And they believe the U.S. should share the pain. "Now," says a senior...
...buffer zones" nearby and have shown on a number of occasions over the past week that they reserve the right to reenter those towns at will. The President, moreover, expressed understanding for Israel maintain its sieges of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and Yasser Arafat's offices in Ramallah, where the Israelis say wanted militants are holed...
...cease-fire until Israel withdraws its troops from Palestinian cities, but Ariel Sharon plans to do that soon; Yasser Arafat needs to do a lot more to rein in terrorism. Sharon had, in fact, indicated last weekend that his troops would withdraw from most West Bank cities except Ramallah and Bethlehem by the end of this week. But what the Israeli leader means by withdrawal is unlikely to be enough to coax the Palestinians into a truce - Israeli tanks rolled into new Palestinian neighborhoods Tuesday, and repeat raids in Tulkarm the same day show that the IDF has simply redeployed...
...more. Arafat has allied himself with Iran in order to smuggle heavy weapons to Palestinian forces, clearly illustrated by the Karine A weapons-boat debacle, and has refused to jail and hold radical militants. A document released by the Israeli government, found last week in the PA compound in Ramallah, actually details financial compensation demanded by Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade for its orchestration of suicide attacks. Furthermore, one of the recent suicide attacks was perpetrated by a man only recently released from a Palestinian prison. Muhammad Hashaika, whose attack killed three and wounded dozens more, had been arrested by Palestinians...