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...Powell needs to make sure Palestinian independence is plainly stated as the final goal of any truce. Yasser Arafat has long made it clear that he won't respond to Bush's demand to crack down on terrorism until talks about the future of a Palestinian state resume. Senator George Mitchell summed up the deadlock in his report last year: The Israelis (and, apparently, the Bush administration) are concerned that linking an end to violence with political negotiations would reward terrorism, but the Palestinians believe that a cease-fire without restoring political negotiations is to acquiesce to continued occupation...
...President emphasized he was under no illusions about Powell's prospects for forging a truce, but the administration's latest efforts came partly in response to mounting criticism over its failure to stop the region's slide into chaos. Bush's speech reflected the fierce debates within the administration over how to respond to the conflagration. He expressed sympathy with the goals of the Israeli operation, citing Israel's need to defend itself, but he called for its end on the grounds that it threatens to destroy the long-term prospects for peace. The President tore into Arafat for failing...
...recent one in which some 150 Palestinians were killed over a two-week period. The objective of such an offensive would be to kill or arrest militants and search for weapons, in the hope of curbing Palestinian attacks that have persisted even in the course of the latest truce talks...
...sidestep American demands. First Arafat simply ignored the conditions set for a meeting with Dick Cheney, and then Sharon simply ignored Washington's wishes on Arafat's travel plans. Zinni's mission, of course, had always been a long shot. There was nothing to suggest conditions for a truce were more conducive than they'd been during his aborted mission last December - indeed, it was the further deterioration of the situation, rather than its improvement, that forced the Bush administration to send him back. What had changed was that the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza had clearly begun...
...current cease-fire effort to fail, even if it gets off the ground. Neither wants to be blamed for such a failure. But the Palestinian posture suggests confidence that their position will be strengthened - and Sharon's weakened - by the upsurge in violence that would likely follow a failed truce...