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...tanks rumbled into Ramallah as dawn broke and thunder rolled on Good Friday. Yasser Arafat knew they were coming after him. Barricaded in a windowless two-room office, he could only sit and rant as much of the Israeli force entering Ramallah--100 armored personnel carriers, 60 tanks and 2,500 soldiers--encircled his compound, their gun barrels swinging into position for a vengeful assault. Arafat worked the phones, dialing diplomats around the world, beseeching them for help. Sources inside Arafat's office told TIME that Arafat warned of a bloody battle between his forces and the Israeli army, hoping...
...Powell needs to make sure Palestinian independence is plainly stated as the final goal of any truce. Yasser Arafat has long made it clear that he won't respond to Bush's demand to crack down on terrorism until talks about the future of a Palestinian state resume. Senator George Mitchell summed up the deadlock in his report last year: The Israelis (and, apparently, the Bush administration) are concerned that linking an end to violence with political negotiations would reward terrorism, but the Palestinians believe that a cease-fire without restoring political negotiations is to acquiesce to continued occupation...
...land-for-peace swap would manage to turn the White House to his way of thinking. But a week ago, Sharon rolled the troops into the West Bank with nary a peep out of Peres and the White House - except to draw the line at killing or exiling Yasser Arafat...
...peace, President Bush on Thursday dispatched Colin Powell to the region to play fireman. The President urged Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities reoccupied over the past week in response to a wave of suicide bombings that has killed more than 120 Israelis this year alone. He slammed Yasser Arafat for failing to fight terrorism and demanded that Palestinian leaders step forward and produce results once Israel moves back...
...that Israel's offensive in the West Bank is a brief interlude on the way to a cease-fire, but events on the ground are starting to suggest a different outcome. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon drew an almost panicky response from Washington Tuesday with his renewed suggestion that Yasser Arafat be exiled from the occupied territories. Sharon had last week bowed to the consensus among his security chiefs, his Labor Party coalition partners and the Bush administration that ousting the Palestinian leader would exacerbate rather than resolve Israel's security crisis, which has seen 41 people killed...