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...long hiatus. Although Administration officials insist the peace process can survive the resignation last weekend of Mahmoud Abbas as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. has lost the one Palestinian leader with whom it believed it could do business. In response, the Administration hopes to punish Yasser Arafat for undermining Abbas' efforts to assert authority over the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on militant groups like Hamas. A senior State Department official says the U.S. plans to push European and Arab leaders to cut ties with Arafat and demand that the Palestinians elect a new leader...
...seen this movie before: Israel surrounds what?s left of Yasser Arafat?s battered compound and assumes a menacing posture, vowing to act against him for failing to end terror attacks; masses of Palestinians, regardless of what they may think of Arafat?s stewardship, rally to their elected president and national icon; moderate Arab leaders warn of a regional cataclysm if the Israelis carry out their threat; and U.S. officials suggest politely but firmly that Arafat?s physical ouster would be ?unhelpful.? But each rerun of the ?Rumble in Ramallah? appears to simply confirm the aging Palestinian leader?s centrality...
...Shimon Peres, warned that expulsion would be an ?historic mistake? that would only strengthen Arafat?s grip on Palestinian politics. Despite having long ago been branded ?irrelevant? by Sharon and banished from the diplomatic itineraries of the Bush administration, Thursday?s actions capped a month-long performance in which Yasser Arafat has reaffirmed his centrality to events in the Middle East...
...supporters - a charge that made his position untenable given Israel's continued war against Palestinian militants and the absence he felt of vital support from the U.S. And so Abbas simply walked away from what most observers had concluded months ago was an impossible mission: bridging the chasm between Yasser Arafat and the grassroots militants of the West Bank and Gaza, on the one hand, and Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush on the other...
...popular speaker of the Palestinian legislature and key Oslo negotiator, is widely known as a moderate opposed to the armed intifada, who maintains close ties with many European, Arab and even some Israeli leaders (including Sharon's former foreign minister, Shimon Peres). He's not exactly a toady of Yasser Arafat, having clashed publicly with him on previous occasions - in many ways, Qureia's political pedigree is not dissimilar from that of Abbas, except that his personal relationship with Arafat is far stronger. But the question of Arafat is political rather than personal. Qureia made clear on Monday that...