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...agreements suggests that the dovish faction of the Israeli government (Ben-Eliezer heads the Labor Party) is signaling its desire to renew some form of peace process with the Palestinian Authority - notwithstanding the reservations of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which in the person of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Tuesday warned against any dealings with the PA, let alone restoring its control over territory...
...failure of force to relieve Israel's burgeoning economic and security crisis has prompted renewed efforts at dialogue with the PA - despite the fact that Yasser Arafat remains in charge - then the wider concerns of the Bush administration, particularly Iraq, may compel Washington to do the same. Despite Rumsfeld's outburst, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice are due to meet a PA delegation on Thursday to discuss security, political reform and the humanitarian crisis in Palestinian territories. And while the delegation does not include PA leader Yasser Arafat, it consists of officials appointed...
...even its most amenable Arab allies against attacking Iraq while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains on the boil may be prompting the Bush administration to avoid allowing its own desire to be rid of Arafat become an obstacle to progress. But the fact that a figure as influential as Rumsfeld was willing to go on record so strongly at odds with administration policy over Israeli settlements in the occupied territories - and even the very designation of those territories as occupied - suggests that the administration's Middle East policy is likely to remain a cacophony of divergent voices, thereby diminishing...
...near term strike. The Air Force is not confident its flight wings can mount several months of globe-spanning combat-especially if it can't count on staging bases close to Iraq. The Navy fears it will need most of its carriers to fight Iraq, leaving other oceans unpatrolled. (Rumsfeld shocked the service by removing planes from carriers and using the ships as bases to launch special forces into Afghanistan.) The Army is the most wary of all. Its troops are already stretched across the globe in an assortment of open-ended commitments and as many as two divisions might...
...these advocates contend the U.S. faces such danger from Saddam's swelling arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that it will have to destroy Saddam sooner or later, they say it's better to get it over with sooner. This camp is led in public by Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and his fiercely gung ho deputy Paul Wolfowitz. But most longtime Bush hands agree that its vital spiritual leader is the backroom Vice President Dick Cheney, who gives this camp constant access to Bush...