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...Haaretz interviewer, Ari Shavit, plainly apprised of the fact that no Palestinian leader could accept those limitations - nor any Syrian leader sign a peace deal while Israel occupies the Golan Heights - asks the Israeli leader what hope he offers his people of ever being able to live in peace...
...been easy, during Ariel Sharon's election campaign, to dismiss as alarmist - even hysterical - his opponent's warnings that the old soldier would plunge Israel back into war. But Monday's bombing of a Syrian position in Lebanon, coming on top of three weeks of escalated military activity against the Palestinians, certainly suggests that Israeli reservists shouldn't be too surprised if they find themselves spending more time with their units in the near future. Three Syrian soldiers were reported killed and a number were injured in the air strike on a Syrian radar facility near Beirut, bombed in retribution...
...purpose of the Israeli raid, said Sharon spokesman Raanan Gishin, was to signal the Syrians that "there's a new government in Israel and the rules of the game have changed." The Israelis insist that reining in Hezbollah is the responsibility of the Syrian army, which dominates Lebanon and has over the years assisted and encouraged the Shiite guerrilla movement in its war with Israel. But the "rules have changed" in the sense that the latest air strike reproduces Sharon's strategy in response to the Palestinian uprising - harshly punishing the Palestinian Authority for strikes against Israelis launched from areas...
...Israeli action provoking further escalation. President Bashar Assad has not been tested since taking over the reins from his late father last year, and the reform-minded 38-year-old may feel pressure to prove his manhood to Damascus hard-liners and his regime's key power base, the Syrian military...
...than a little test of the incoming administration's suspension. For example, according to the Jerusalem Post, Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell accepted $200,000 for a speech held a couple of days before the election from a group sponsored by a Lebanese diplomat with ties to the Syrian government. The transaction, the story's writer speculates, could cast a shadow on Powell's hearings, given the United States' historically close ties to Israel...