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...nationalist and religious parties. That will keep Netanyahu in the Foreign Ministry that he's occupied since returning to the government after a failed party leadership run against Sharon in November. "Israelis voted for Sharon because they don't believe there will ever be peace with [Palestinian leader Yasser] Arafat," Netanyahu told Time. "What they asked themselves in this election is, 'Who will be tougher?'" Sharon has proved he can be plenty tough. But with Labor, which signed the Oslo Peace Accords, in his cabinet, world leaders couldn't write off the possibility that Sharon might agree to a peace...
...order to avoid putting pressure on Sharon - the wider U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond inevitably put Washington into conflict with Sharon's political base, even if not necessarily with the prime minister himself. The U.S. has, for example, insisted that Israel refrain from expelling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the occupied territories - a demand popular among Likud supporters, and even more so among the parties of the far right. The U.S. has also signaled its intention to press for a settlement freeze in those territories as part of a future peace effort, another position not shared...
...Suicide bombers continue to strike inside Israel and gunmen attack settlements; Israeli troops maintain their occupation of the West Bank and raid Gaza's population centers. Sharon says he has a peace plan but says he's waiting for an end to Palestinian violence and the effective ouster of Yasser Arafat before it can be implemented; the Palestinians maintain that little can change in their political dynamic as long as they remain under Israeli occupation. Although the U.S. has together with European allies formulated a "road map" for rapid movement towards a Palestinian state, the Bush administration has thus...
MIDDLE EAST One Step Forward ... A host of Palestinian groups met in Cairo for talks on ending attacks against Israel. Yasser Arafat's secular Fatah faction endorsed a proposed truce, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected it. The need for a cease-fire was apparent in Gaza, where a Palestinian teen died in a gun battle after the Israeli army raided the town of Beit Hanoun. Troops also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said...
...refused to allow them to travel in the wake of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Palestinians accepted the need for reforms to pave the way to a democratic state and promised to present a draft constitution that would include an elected Prime Minister - a move to sideline President Yasser Arafat...