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...time Sharon's Cabinet met in an emergency session the next night, militants had struck again, killing four Israelis in a settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli officials tell TIME that Cabinet ministers agreed at once to hit back militarily, then debated for six hours how to punish Arafat. The Israelis are aware that Arafat cannot completely control Hamas, the Islamic group that carried out the Netanya massacre. But they complain that most of the time he doesn't even try. He has failed to arrest hundreds of militants from Hamas and its sister group, Islamic Jihad...
...brakes on Sharon's tanks. "People are extremely angry," says one Arab diplomat. "The perception is that the U.S. is giving, if not a green light, then an amber light." The Arabs continue to condition support for an attack on Iraq on American-led progress toward a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, a demand Vice President Dick Cheney heard repeatedly on his swing through the region last month. "If the U.S. is worried about Iraq, forget it," says one diplomat. "In the war on terror, the U.S. needs the support of the Arab world. There is linkage whether they...
...budget, Governor Ronnie Musgrove asked for $537 million for Medicaid, a small increase over the previous year. The legislature gave him half that. With some tobacco lawsuit settlement money and cost cutting, lawmakers narrowed the gap to $120 million. But that's as far as they would go. "Ladies and gentlemen, there ain't no more money down here," Public Health Committee Chairman Bobby Moody announced Monday on the floor of the state house. "We done turned every stone that had a few pennies on it, and we think we have put as much into Medicaid as we can possibly...
...field commander more comfortable with tactical improvisation than grand strategic visions. His preferred method is to change the "facts on the ground," creating new faits accompli that develop a life of their own and change the terms of grand strategic debate. That's the rationale for the settlement movement - to stake an Israeli claim on the lands captured in 1967 by simply seizing them and setting down roots rather than awaiting the outcome of any negotiations. Today the fate of those same settlements is a key point of contention in Israeli-Palestinian relations...
...President Bush's comments also contain some bad news for Sharon. Washington appeared to link cease-fire efforts to the broader goal of achieving Palestinian statehood, and he set out goals in this respect that will make the Israeli leader uncomfortable. Bush demanded an end to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza, and insisted that Israel's occupation of those territories must be ended "through withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries consistent with United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338." Tough talk that suggests a parting of ways, sooner or later, between the U.S. and Sharon...