Word: truce
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...pushed the PA into new talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad - a conversation in which all sides are aware that the alternative will be a potentially disastrous confrontation between Arafat's Authority and the radical Islamists. The fact that the Saudis have joined in pushing publicly for such a truce increases the political pressure on Hamas, which wants to avoid appearing at odds with the Arab world. Besides its clandestine terror wing, Hamas maintains a huge health-, education- and welfare infrastructure on the West Bank and Gaza, often providing basic services where the PA fails to deliver. And that civil...
...resolving the Ramallah standoff was the insertion of a few British and American prison warders, and many diplomats and Palestinian officials want that to serve as a model for achieving a broader truce by sending some form of international force to the West Bank. The Israelis remain resolutely opposed and so far the Bush administration is inclined to agree with them. Still, international pressure is likely to mount, particularly in the fallout from the collapse of the U.N. mission to investigate the battle of Jenin...
...seen over the past week, with U.S. envoys in the region and President Bush's plans to meet the leaders of Egypt and Israel in the coming days - typically serves as a cue for radical elements to launch new outrages in the hope of sabotaging any progress towards a truce. But the sophistication of the attack is a worrying sign for Israel, suggesting Palestinian terror groups may be raising the stakes by varying their tactics (until now, attacks on buses have been more typically carried out by bombers boarding as passengers...
...NEPAL Truce Trounced Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba ruled out any talks with Maoist rebels unless they surrender their weapons. Deuba was responding to reports, later denied by a rebel spokesman, that the guerrillas had declared a one-month unilateral cease-fire. The statements came after some of the heaviest fighting in the country's six-year conflict, with estimates that between 250 and 600 people had died in the Western district of Rolpa...
...Israeli leader's own idea of a peace plan consists largely of ending violence and agreeing on a long-term truce, postponing the question of disentangling and demarcating Israel from Palestine for up to a decade. Sharon's own domestic concerns may be a factor. The governing body of his own Likud Party is due to vote in a little over a week to reject the principle of any Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, which would preclude the two-state solution being pursued by Washington. And while Secretary of State Colin Powell is calling...