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Ariel Sharon's tanks may not have moved from Yasser Arafat's doorstep in two months, and his tanks and planes are pulverizing Palestinian targets, but it's the Israeli leader who now appears to be under siege. Israeli forces killed some 16 Palestinians Wednesday in raids across the West Bank and Gaza, as Sharon's administration launched what it called a "counter-guerrilla war" in the Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians were killed the previous day in retaliation for a dramatic guerrilla attack that killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. More than 40 people have died...
Implying that Yasser Arafat is chicken can get you slapped - at least if you're one of his subordinates. Tuesday's altercation between the Palestinian leader and his West Bank security chief is the latest sign of a crisis in the Palestinian Authority (PA), as aides press Arafat to make a clear commitment to a political direction, and take the consequences...
Ariel Sharon's fourth meeting with the President Bush in the past year was a reminder of how dramatically the diplomatic tides have shifted. The most frequent visitor to the Clinton White House had been Sharon's archenemy, Yasser Arafat - and the Palestinian leader has been nowhere near George Bush's Washington. But despite his absence, it was Arafat who dominated much of Thursday's discussion at the White House...
Ariel Sharon is hedging his bets. The Israeli prime minister, who leaves for Washington Tuesday, continues to denounce Yasser Arafat as irrelevant and insist there will be no negotiations until Arafat does more to stop Palestinian militants attacking Israelis. Last week he even went so far as to publicly regret not killing Arafat when Israeli forces captured Beirut in 1982. But even amidst the bellicose rhetoric, Sharon is still reaching out, meeting last week with aides of the Palestinian leader he has under virtual house arrest in Ramallah...
...Yasser Arafat may have yet to impress anyone with his new "give-peace-a-chance" op-ed page charm offensive, but the pressure on him to rein in the gunmen isn't only foreign. A number of Palestinian political leaders and intellectuals have grown increasingly alarmed at what they characterize as the "militarization" of the intifada. They complain this not only reinforces antidemocratic tendencies in Palestinian political life, but is also a spectacularly bad strategy that has squandered international sympathy for Palestinian street protestors by shifting attention to Israelis suffering the horror of suicide bombings. Israeli reports suggest Arafat...