Word: statehooders
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...Palestinians, who want a state now and are willing to continue a kamikaze war until they get it. The Israeli offensive against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank--and the Palestinian leadership's continued sanctioning of suicide attacks against innocent Israelis--has led some to wonder whether even statehood can bring a lasting peace in a place where hatred runs so deep. A Palestinian gunman from Arafat's Fatah Tanzim militia who escaped the Jenin camp tells TIME that "we are very grateful to Sharon because he made every Palestinian child, every Palestinian woman and every Palestinian man hate...
...doves inside his administration. The hawks see the conflict through the prism of the war on terrorism, and have supported Sharon's military response and his goal of ousting Arafat. The doves believe Palestinian terrorism can only be ended once Palestinians are able to see a clear path to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The hawks are leery of "rewarding terrorism" by reopening political negotiations; the doves warn that backing Sharon's offensive puts the U.S. at odds with the entire Arab world, undermining its war on terrorism. So, while President...
...Powell had hoped to move the process forward by fixing both parties' eyes on the political horizon, pressing for a quick resumption of negotiations over Palestinian statehood. On that front, Sharon suggested a regional peace conference, possibly to be held in the U.S. in June. And although the Israeli leader was forced to retract his insistence that Arafat be excluded from the guest list, the difference between Palestinians and moderate Arabs on the one hand and Sharon on the other over the shape, or even the desirability, of a final settlement gave little cause for confidence that the conference would...
...worked on the speech line by line--a measure of how troubled and critical this moment really was. The team added a great deal of moral embroidery and made sure that the speech demanded something from everyone. In the Rose Garden, Bush reached out to Yasser Arafat, endorsing Palestinian statehood and giving the leader another chance to stop the terrorists and make peace--but making it clear this chance would be his last. Bush pressed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pull his troops and tanks from the West Bank cities and insisted that Israel begin treating the Palestinians with...
...bridge too far. But Powell is attempting to do more on his trip than simply try, where General Anthony Zinni has so far failed, to get the two sides to implement the Tenet cease-fire plan. He is, in his own words, "aggressively" pursuing renewed political negotiations over Palestinian statehood as part of a wider truce effort. During his talks with Sharon, he emphasized that a political settlement is essential to ultimately put an end to Palestinian terrorism...