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MIDDLE EAST Arafat Emerges, Defiant, amid the Rubble Israel lifted its siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, but tensions remained high outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Playing down the damage to his compound, Arafat angrily denounced the Israelis for a "big crime" against a "sacred place" after fighting and fire broke out at the church, where Israel was demanding the surrender of dozens of Palestinian fighters. He also condemned Israel's assault on the Jenin refugee camp, the deaths of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and infrastructure damage. The Palestinian leader later toured Ramallah...
President Bush may be calling on Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon to lead the way to Middle East peace, but their progress will largely depend on the extent of Washington's own commitment to enforce a solution. The Bush administration has urged Arafat to end terror attacks on Israelis and warned this is his last opportunity for peace. Bush will host Sharon at the White House next week, hoping to generate momentum for an international peace conference to be convened during the summer. But despite official optimism about new prospects for peace, there's little evidence thus far of significant...
...authoritarian, personality-cult leadership style and make his administration more democratic and accountable. That could just as easily be a blessing as a curse for American and Israeli efforts to cut deals with the Palestinians, because the median of Palestinian public opinion right now is significantly more militant than Yasser Arafat...
...media dusted reports about Jenin under the carpet. Some U.S. publications responded to news of a massacre by momentarily cooling their anti-Palestinian rhetoric. For a brief time, the New York Times’ good cop/bad cop duo of Thomas Friedman and William Safire relented in their onslaught against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. Safire took a break from the Middle East and wrote on cosmetic surgery, while Friedman urged his readers to watch the Golf Channel instead of listening to news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...Yasser Arafat is free. But whether his personal liberty translates into freedom for his people - and peace for Israel - depends on a complex and perilous diplomatic dance between the U.S., the Saudis, the Israelis and the Palestinian leadership, a dance made all the more delicate after a fire broke out near the Church of the Nativity during a firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinians inside. Six men wanted by Israel left Arafat's Ramallah compound Wednesday in the custody of U.S. and British officials who will oversee their confinement at a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho. On Thursday, in keeping...