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...ambulances taking the wounded from the scene. Once the Blackhawk touched down, eight miles from the Lebanese border, Powell took a call from Sharon and expressed his deep regrets over the attack. That day, after consulting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Powell delayed a planned meeting with Yasser Arafat and threatened to cancel it altogether unless the Palestinian leader denounced the bombings--which last week included a suicide attack on a bus in Haifa that killed eight. "It was a group decision," says a senior White House aide. "This was a turning point." Actually, it was much worse: Powell...
...decades after the founding of Israel and a year after Israel's overwhelming victory in the Six-Day War, YASSER ARAFAT was emerging as the new leader of the Palestinian fedayeen, or "men of sacrifice." TIME profiled him and his movement in a 1968 cover story...
...Terje Roed-Larson said Israel had "lost all moral ground" in the conflict. But U.S. President George W. Bush defended Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "man of peace," saying Israel was meeting a timetable to pull back from Palestinian territories. With the army still encircling West Bank towns, Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the U.N. Security Council reaffirmed a call for Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories and voted to send a fact-finding team to Jenin...
...doing its best to portray Colin Powell's 10-day mission to the Middle East as a success, but no amount of spin can hide the fact that American influence in the region has reached new lows. Powell failed to secure his two main objectives: a cease-fire from Yasser Arafat and an Israeli withdrawal from recently occupied territory in the West Bank. The prospects for peace dimmed even more after Powell got home. With Arab and European opinion already inflamed by reports of Israeli aggression, Bush added to the outrage by hailing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
...remain deployed in self-declared "buffer zones" nearby and have shown on a number of occasions over the past week that they reserve the right to reenter those towns at will. The President, moreover, expressed understanding for Israel maintain its sieges of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and Yasser Arafat's offices in Ramallah, where the Israelis say wanted militants are holed...