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...Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell TIME that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet Sharon face to face, but they expect much. Says a senior...
...than at the right-wing end of the country's political spectrum. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dealt a cruel political blow by his own party early on Monday, when the Likud Central Committee rejected his pleas to consider the diplomatic consequences and voted almost unanimously to reject Palestinian statehood in the West Bank. Although the vote simply restated longstanding Likud policy, it was a calculated bid by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unseat Sharon. Netanyahu's calculation: The vote will make Sharon's job more difficult because he has to deal with the political and diplomatic reality that...
...Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell Time that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet Sharon face to face, but they expect much. Says a senior...
...domestic political restraints on Ariel Sharon are even more pronounced than those on Arafat. Bush wants the prime minister to enter negotiations over Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza, but what Sharon wants is to build buffer zones in those territories and enter only into "long-term interim agreements" - a notion dismissed out of hand by Palestinian and moderate Arab leaders, who have embraced a consensus for peace with Israel on the basis of some version of its 1967 borders. That's a prospect Sharon has ruled out, and Benjamin Netanyahu's challenge from the right for leadership...
...Ramallah deal is part of a broader attempt by the Bush administration, in concert with the Saudis, to calm the crisis in the Palestinian territories and revive movement towards Palestinian statehood. Media reports suggest President Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah have agreed to work together on a plan involving an end to all current Israeli incursions into Palestinian territories, a cease-fire and a renewal of negotiations over Palestinian statehood based on proposals brokered by the Clinton administration and discussed by the two sides at Taba through January...