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...Bush for the first time lined up all the carrots and sticks to wheedle and whack both Israelis and Palestinians to the bargaining table. The idea was simple, maybe too simple: if Bush demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdraw from the West Bank and that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat call off the terrorists, the two sides could get down to business. But when neither man complied, Bush seemed to give up after a week. When the GOP's right wing unleashed a tide of e-mails and telephone calls in support of Israel, Bush appeared to revert...
...their leaders. The ones praising the bravery of the bombers somehow never decide to kill themselves. In reality, these “martyrs” are really just being used as inexpensive missiles—inexpensive because the only cost is human life. No one is worried about Yasser Arafat using his body to carry a bomb. Nor do we find the limbs of high-ranking members of Hammas strewn about Jerusalem pizza parlors. These leaders are less willing to die for the cause than they are to send others to die instead...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat certainly qualifies as a terrorist. In the past year and a half of fighting, Israel has sustained the proportional equivalent of seven World Trade Center attacks. The problem has not been that Arafat has not done enough to stop the terrorism but that he himself has been the source of the terror. He continually incites Palestinians and has called for jihad and a million martyrs—suicide bombers—to march on Jerusalem. Asking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to control the numerous terrorist factions is equivalent to asking Osama bin Laden...
...ended the first phase of his West Bank offensive, but its fallout will shake up the region for months to come - and imperil U.S. efforts to rekindle a peace process. Israel withdrew its tanks to the edge of more Palestinian towns Monday, although it maintained its sieges of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Israeli forces didn't fully leave the area; instead, they withdrew to self-declared buffer zones, from which they have continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude a cease-fire just...
...fedayeen are most secretive of all about their high command, though the largest organization, Arafat's El Fatah, is said to be ruled by a committee of wealthy civilians in Damascus. Nor does anyone really know very much about Yasser Arafat, though everyone in the Arab world knows who he is. As El Fatah grew and felt the need for a visible spokesman, he became its ambassador extraordinary to the Arab world, its chief fund raiser and its field commander in Jordan. Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar) sits at a wooden desk in his headquarters in Amman, dealing...