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ISRAEL Sharon Irks the U.S. as a Truce Crumbles In a week that saw the softening of U.S. pronouncements on the Middle East, both Israel and militant Palestinians trashed a week-long cease-fire, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon engaged in a war of words with Washington. Israeli troops launched deadly raids on Hebron and the Gaza Strip in reprisal for two attacks that killed five Israelis. Sharon infuriated Washington with an accusation that the U.S. was seeking to appease Arab states to gain support for its international coalition. President Bush earlier appeared to endorse the notion of an independent...
...anniversary of the intifadeh that has killed more than 600 Palestinians and 160 Israelis. The momentary peace did not last long, as Israeli soldiers and Palestinians resumed hostilities that were supposed to cease after Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had met to agree a truce...
...that, he was wrong. U.S. pressure may have forced both Sharon and Arafat into a cease-fire, but it's hardly a comfortable fit. The truce appears to be buckling under pressure of the renewed fighting, and even if it holds it becomes quickly untenable unless it leads to renewed political negotiations - hence the U.S. statement on Palestinian statehood. But having opposed Oslo from the outset and having voided the deal offered to Arafat by his predecessor, Sharon appears to have very little to bring to the political negotiating table. And after a year in which the intifada has demanded...
...second item on the agenda was money. There would be no arguments: A truce had been called in the bitter political war over dipping into the hundreds of billions of dollars piling up in the Social Security surplus. They'd dip into the fund. The men huddled in Hastert's office debated how much would be needed. The White House already had told Congress it wanted $20 billion to help rebuild the damaged Pentagon, deal with the New York catastrophe and bolster security. But $20 billion might not be enough, one of the leaders said. "You're probably right," Lott...
...second item on the agenda was money. There would be no arguments: A truce had been called in the bitter political war over dipping into the hundreds of billions of dollars piling up in the Social Security surplus. They'd dip into the fund. The men huddled in Hastert's office debated how much would be needed. The White House already had told Congress it wanted $20 billion to help rebuild the damaged Pentagon, deal with the New York catastrophe and bolster security. But $20 billion might not be enough, one of the leaders said. "You're probably right," Lott...