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Israeli troops are back in Jenin, this time with no plans to leave. And Palestinian radicals have declared their intention to continue launching terror attacks inside Israel, no matter what Yasser Arafat says. Even as the Bush administration weighs what to say about the future of the Middle East, and when to say it, the situation on the ground is rapidly deteriorating...
...Yasser Arafat looked as if he couldn't believe his bulging eyes. Inspecting the damage to his living quarters caused by the latest Israeli assault on his Ramallah headquarters last week, the Palestinian leader checked out the new window in his bathroom, courtesy of Israeli firepower; a broken mirror hanging above a photograph of him with his daughter, now 6 years old; the scattering of debris covering his exercise bike and bed. "I was supposed to sleep here last night, but I had some work downstairs. Everybody knows this is my bedroom," he told reporters, suggesting that the Israeli troops...
...Arabic-language newspaper, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that, as part of efforts to create a full Palestinian state, it might be necessary to have a provisional state as an interim step. He also made it clear that the U.S. would continue working with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. But White House spokesman Ari Fleischer failed to endorse Powell's remarks, saying that he was not expressing his own views but those of Arab leaders. IRAN Voice of David Iranian state radio launched a daily broadcast in Hebrew aimed at countering what Iran sees as "the monopoly...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been free from the Israeli siege on his headquarters for one month--long enough, arguably, to demonstrate whether he is sincere this time about cracking down on Palestinian terrorists. In the current environment, though, it seems Arafat's desires, whatever they may be, are not enough. His security forces were so battered by recent Israeli military incursions that they are almost completely ineffectual, according to Arafat's senior aides. "Our capability is zero," Jibril Rajoub, head of preventive security in the West Bank, told TIME. "Our motivation also is zero." In today's climate, Palestinian...
...death toll is the highest number within Israel since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. NORTHERN IRELAND A Sinn Fein Mayor Elected in Belfast Against Loyalist protests, votes from nonsectarian Alliance Party councilors sealed the election win of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as lord mayor of Belfast - the first time the political wing of the I.R.A. has gained control...