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...global anti-terror campaign has given it an overriding interest in restarting some form of Israeli-Palestinian peace process - and America is not finding Prime Minister Ariel Sharon particularly eager to play ball. Before the dust had settled on the World Trade Center ruins, Sharon ordered his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, to call off cease-fire talks with Yasser Arafat, who Sharon likened to Osama Bin Laden. And he has since sent his army into three Palestinian cities amid escalating violence. Bush administration officials phoned Sharon five times in the past week to urge him to allow the Peres-Arafat...
...with Israel since its founding - have also pushed their government to intervene more forcefully in the conflict, with results: since his Middle East visit last month, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has taken the lead in trying to broker peace talks between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. And although Europe's leaders are often more sympathetic to criticisms of Israel than their American counterparts - last week European representatives remained at the U.N. conference on racism after U.S. and Israeli delegates walked out - Jewish activists say they have begun to wield more influence. "The French leadership...
...year-old former general has to prepare for a kind of war and a kind of peace at the same time. The army, the right wing and his own Likud Party all want to hit the Palestinians harder; the few doves in his coalition, led by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, are desperately trying to steer Sharon away from military action. The Prime Minister himself is performing a balancing act in keeping his "national unity government" together. So far, he has fought hard and yet maintained the contacts that could lead to real negotiations; the combination has earned...
Expect nothing to come of the latest proposed Israeli-Palestinian talks, and you're unlikely to be disappointed. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres are scheduled to meet sometime this week, probably at the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza. And that prompted Palestinian militants at the weekend to repeat a familiar pattern of launching a frenzy of attacks as a form of "veto" over any new moves towards a cease-fire. Five Israelis were killed and 80 wounded in two separate suicide bombings and a drive-by shooting on Saturday, and Israel responded Sunday...
...hawkish than himself. Burg is the thoughtful dove who, despite supporting strong military action in response to the current intifada, believes that Israel ultimately has no choice but to resume talks with the Palestinians. Those positions, of course, are not incompatible in the short term - Labor's caretaker leader Shimon Peres has, in his capacity as Sharon's foreign minister, been pursuing cease-fire talks with Yasser Arafat even as Ben-Eliezer has been sending tanks into Palestinian-controlled territories. And a strong feeling that they were betrayed by Arafat has led many of party leaders and supporters to back...