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...Middle East peace be brokered without Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat? For the short term, at least, Israel is trying. Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer tells TIME that his country is bypassing Arafat as part of a strategy to strike direct cease-fire deals with local Palestinian power brokers. Last month in the divided city of Hebron, West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub agreed to keep order in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood in return for Israel's pulling out troops and tanks. Last week--just days before Israelis killed a leading Hamas military leader suspected of terrorism--Ben-Eliezer oversaw...
...Sharon, who is meeting with President George Bush on Monday. Already Zinni is getting little support from his American compatriots. Some Bush Administration hard-liners have told TIME's Massimo Calabresi that they are worried Zinni and the State Department will pressure Israel to make concessions to P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. For his part, Arafat called an emergency meeting of his leadership on Sunday, and a spokesman said that they were planning to make an "urgent" decision. On Sunday morning, Powell called for Arafat to arrest and imprison those resoponsible for the suicide bombings...
Since he took office, President Bush has refused to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Amid growing worldwide calls for him to do so when both were in New York City last week to address the U.N. General Assembly, Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, explained the stonewalling. "You cannot help us with al-Qaeda," she said, "and hug [terrorist groups] Hizballah or Hamas." But the U.S. approach has others apopleptic. Even back in August, before Sept. 11 raised the stakes, de facto Saudi leader Crown Prince Abdullah sent a blunt message to Bush: "You've left...
...Institute Of Politics Forum event on Nov. 15, “The Israeli-Palestinian Challenge: A Shared Vision for the Future,” Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Minister of Information and Culture for the Palestinian Authority (PA) chastised the event’s moderator, Associate Professor of Government Eva Bellin, for her mentioning an accusation that the Palestinian Authority sanctions anti-Semitic propaganda in its textbooks and media. How could the Palestinians, themselves “Semites,” be anti-Semitic, Rabbo asked rhetorically. This accusation, Rabbo complained, “struck at my heart...
...Yasser Abed Rabbo undoubtedly knows about these textbooks. Rabbo focused on the term “anti-Semitism” rather than addressing the very real anti-Semitism that his government advocates because it was an easier topic. It allowed him to accuse and blame rather than to engage in serious self-reflection...