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...buffer zone" on the West Bank, Arafat remains in an uncomfortable position. Sharon insists there will be no discussion of political concessions before a cease-fire has taken hold, and he's dead set against any resumption of the Oslo process. But a cease-fire requires Arafat to rein in the militants, and he's unlikely to risk confrontation with the hard-liners of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and even his own Fatah organization without a political prize to offer Palestinians as reward. After all, the majority of Palestinians polled in various surveys support violence against Israel and oppose cease-fire...
...clear when Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres will meet under German auspices, let alone whether the Palestinian leader and the Israeli foreign minister have anything new to discuss. Today's talk is of a "rolling cease fire" to be implemented on an area-by-area basis - Arafat would rein in the militants in one town, and the Israelis would ease restrictions on that town, creating momentum towards calming the flames...
...adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last Friday, following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people in Jerusalem, Israel had seized control of Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday that these actions were the price of Yasser Arafat's failure to rein in suicide bombers. The Palestinians greeted them as a declaration of war. And the United States urged restraint on both sides...
...Would-be mediators maintain that the increasingly violent deadlock arises because Sharon insists that Arafat act against the Islamists before he'll consider any of the Mitchell Report's "confidence-building" mechanisms, but that Arafat is unable to rein in the violence unless he's rewarded with political concessions. But that may be a moot point, right now, because the current sentiment on the Palestinian street severely limits his ability to act against the militants, even if he chooses to. His own Fatah organization has formally abandoned the cease-fire and resumed its grassroots alliance with Hamas and Islamic Jihad...
...returns to jail, e-book publishers will have free rein to use Adobe's security restrictions on what little e-book market there is. If he returns to Moscow, Silicon Valley will breathe easy and more of us may end up reading e-books on our computers. Whether we will have paid for them is another question entirely...