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...Following the meeting, President Bush repeated his longstanding contention that Arafat needs to do more to rein in gunmen and suicide bombers. But Bush appeared to have rejected Sharon's attempts to persuade Washington to sever ties with Arafat altogether. Despite their frustration with what they see as Arafat's refusal to act decisively against terrorism, Bush administration officials see no alternative but to keep channels open to the elected leader of the Palestinian Authority. Moreover, Sharon?s promotion of talks with "alternative" Palestinian leaders is something of a fig leaf - the Israeli prime minister has opened a channel...
...Yasser Arafat may have yet to impress anyone with his new "give-peace-a-chance" op-ed page charm offensive, but the pressure on him to rein in the gunmen isn't only foreign. A number of Palestinian political leaders and intellectuals have grown increasingly alarmed at what they characterize as the "militarization" of the intifada. They complain this not only reinforces antidemocratic tendencies in Palestinian political life, but is also a spectacularly bad strategy that has squandered international sympathy for Palestinian street protestors by shifting attention to Israelis suffering the horror of suicide bombings. Israeli reports suggest Arafat...
Most advertisers have already scaled back the heavy-handed flag waving of those first few months. And the party atmosphere of the Super Bowl seems to many a good time to return to pure entertainment. But the patriotic pitch may be hard to rein in for long; the Winter Olympics begin on NBC just five days later...
...measure, the situation has the makings of an epic human catastrophe. And to reduce this dismal state of affairs to a mantra about Arafat doing more to rein in terrorism is simply deluded...
...Washington's frustration over the Palestinian leader's failure to rein in militants reached boiling point three weeks ago when Israel intercepted an arms shipment allegedly bound for the PA from Iran. The U.S. has demanded that Arafat provide a satisfactory explanation of that incident, and has written to the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia offering evidence of PA involvement in the transaction and urging pressure on Arafat. But Bush is unlikely to recruit any Arab support against Arafat, for the simple reason that the consensus even among U.S. allies in the Arab world is that Sharon...