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...Despite killing more than 200 alleged militants and arresting around 2,000 more, Israel's invasions of Palestinian towns such as Ramallah and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza do not appear to have achieved the desired results. Israeli analysts noted that Palestinian militants preserved much of their fighting capability by avoiding full-on clashes with Israeli forces. And even in the course of the current operations in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers have struck repeatedly inside Israel, as if to send the message that the Israeli raids could not deter them...
...JAMAL ARURI/AFP A Palestinian gunman holds up a rocket propelled grenade in Ramallah...
...primary beneficiary of the White House decision to reengage is certainly Arafat. The Palestinian leader appears to have weathered his siege in Ramallah and forced both the U.S. and Sharon to resume dialogue with him even as Palestinian guns are blazing. Sharon - who last December declared Arafat "irrelevant" and this week vowed that no negotiations would be held until Israeli military action had cowed the Palestinians into submission - on Friday agreed to negotiate a cease-fire with Arafat's lieutenants even while violence continues. That's a dramatic reversal of his longstanding refusal to negotiate under fire...
...this month. But having been drawn into the game, the Saudis have an agenda of their own. They indicated Monday that they would not raise the proposal in Beirut unless Arafat was present - a direct challenge to Washington to press Sharon to end the Palestinian leader's confinement to Ramallah. More diplomatic discomfort for the Israeli leader emerged Monday, when Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak called for a Sharon-Arafat summit meeting in Egypt. Sitting down with Arafat would require a 180-degree turnabout by Sharon right now. But Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed interest in the idea...
Israel responds with ships and planes in a prolonged attack on Arafat's compounds in Gaza and Ramallah, killing 16 Palestinians. Tanks move into Gaza City the next...