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...Arab nationalist, he had turned down invitations to visit Washington, including one handwritten by Bush himself. Then, while watching a live press conference on TV one day in August, Abdullah became furious at the way the President, he felt, was putting all the blame for the spiraling violence on Yasser Arafat and none on Israel. He instructed Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar to deliver a stark message: relations were at a crossroads, and Saudi Arabia would now look after its own interests, thank...
...left more than 50 people dead. Palestinians turned to military targets, killing six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. In response, Israel Defense Forces sent tanks into Gaza City, blew up the Voice of Palestine radio and TV station and for the first time fired on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, where he has been under virtual house arrest since December. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addressed Israelis on TV, promising to set up buffer zones between the communities. He pledged to continue his efforts to "prevent a slide into total war." Talks can continue once there...
Ariel Sharon loathes Yasser Arafat. If he could do it all over again, Sharon has said, he would have killed Arafat in Lebanon 20 years ago when he had the chance. And yet last week-with the number of Israelis slaughtered on his watch rising, the country sliding closer to war and its citizens sinking deeper into despair-Sharon tried to keep his enemy awake, as if Arafat were the only person in the world who could understand his troubles. Before dawn on Wednesday, Israeli Apache helicopters fired missiles into a building next to the office compound in Ramallah where...
...prop up Israelis' sagging morale, Ariel Sharon is mixing his messages. In response to two painful Palestinian hits on Israeli military targets in the West Bank and Gaza, Sharon's army pounded Palestinian targets for two days last week and fired a missile directly into the Ramallah compound where Yasser Arafat remains under virtual house arrest. And in a speech to the nation on Thursday he vowed to build "buffer zones to achieve security separation" between Israelis and Palestinians. But a day later he ordered his army to avoid initiating military action in the West Bank and Gaza for seven...
...proposal by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah to offer Israel full normalization of relations with the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders. Sharon has been conspicuously silent on actual peace plans, confining his diplomatic efforts to pressing Washington to add Yasser Arafat to its "axis of evil" column. And as the crisis escalates, that has left a growing number of Israelis doubting whether their prime minister has any long-term plan...