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Many Arab newsmen agree. They say the bitterness that the U.S. has sown with its policy toward Israel has intensified because of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Two weeks ago, Yasser Abu Hilalah charged in the Jordanian daily al-Rai that the Americans are ignoring war crimes committed by the Northern Alliance. "The U.S. has lost the propaganda war," Abu Hilalah concluded...
...series of bombings on Thursday and Saturday that saw nearly 200 casualties. But at least the Israelis and Palestinians say they wish Zinni well. Not so some Bush Administration hard-liners, who tell TIME they are worried Zinni will pressure Israel to make concessions to P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. "I don't like the whole idea of what he's doing out there," says a senior Administration official. The carping could undermine Zinni's mission even before it gets under way; wise to the Bush Administration's continuing reticence to engage in the Middle East, some parties in the region...
...back at center stage in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Western governments, Israel and many Palestinians believe the group represents a major threat to regional stability. Less than a week after devastating Hamas suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, and as Hamas activists were being rounded up by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Abu Marzook outlined his defiant perspective from the group's exile base in the Syrian capital. Excerpts...
...condemn the bombings as brutal acts of unjustifiable terrorism and hope that the U.S.-led pressure now being put on Palestinian Authority (PA) Chair Yasser Arafat will force him to destroy all terrorist elements within his territory. And if Arafat cannot act swiftly and forcefully to end Palestinian terrorism, he should be replaced by someone with greater leadership ability and political support. The Palestinians have suffered under Arafat’s corrupt leadership for years and if he cannot control terrorists, they would be justified in finding a new leader...
...suicide bombing in Jerusalem Wednesday that wounded six Israelis simply underscored the familiarity of the pattern of violence now being accelerated. President Bush again insisted that Yasser Arafat "rout out those who killed," but the fragility of the Palestinian leader's grip on power was demonstrated in Gaza City where Hamas gunmen, supported by thousands of demonstrators, forced Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces to retreat from the home of the movement's leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, whom Arafat had ordered placed under house arrest...