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...minister Ariel Sharon, for his part, has plainly had to have his arm twisted even to go along with the latest cease-fire effort - it reportedly took a week of daily phone calls from Washington to convince him to allow last week's meeting between Arafat and foreign minister Shimon Peres. Sharon's labeling of Arafat as "our Bin Laden" and the 16 incursions his forces launched into Palestinian-controlled territories in the week following September 11 suggest he'd expected the terror attacks would create a diplomatic climate more favorable to a military escalation against Arafat...
...Wednesday's meeting between Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat to discuss restoring the failed cease-fire was less significant for what it achieved (not much) than for the fact that it happened at all. Although the meeting was arranged before the September 11 attacks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had immediately afterward ordered his foreign minister to cancel the talks. Sharon branded Arafat "our Bin Laden" and ratcheted up Israeli military activity in the West Bank and Gaza, mounting 16 incursions into Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in the week following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Sharon's change...
TIME.com: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres finally met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat overnight Wednesday. The U.S. has been pushing hard for the meeting to go ahead, anxious to stabilize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the interests of forging the strongest possible coalition against terrorism. What did the talks achieve...
...Matt Rees: There's something of a battle going on within the cabinet between more hawkish elements who want to stop the planned meeting between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, and those Labor Party ministers who want the meeting to go ahead. But it's not clear where Sharon himself stands - whether he's unhappy at the prospect of an Arafat-Peres meeting, or whether he's simply making Arafat suffer a little in order to get the meeting...
...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...