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...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 that prospect would prompt the international community to force the Israelis to desist. He phoned the Jerusalem hotel room of Anthony Zinni, the U.S. special envoy to the region, and pleaded with him to tell his bosses in the Bush Administration to stop what was about to happen. "It's an attack on me personally," he said. "They want...
...supermarket, killing two Israelis. The next day, a suicide bomber injured at least 32 patrons of a Tel Aviv cafe. On both sides, the whipsaw of violence silenced the cautiously hopeful talk of a prospective cease-fire and possible resumption of the peace process that greeted the return of Zinni to the region last month...
...Israelis believe Arafat has been duplicitous in his talks with Zinni over a cease-fire. U.S. officials tell TIME that before the Netanya attack, Zinni had made progress toward a truce. He had asked the two sides to give him lists of conditions they wanted to see in place before they would agree to quit shooting. Early last week Zinni whittled down the two sets of demands into a single "bridging" proposal, which he presented to Sharon and Arafat the day before Passover. According to a senior U.S. State Department official, Zinni told them to make their choice. The Israelis...
Administration officials say they're not giving up: Zinni remains in the region, still trying to broker a cease-fire. Beyond that, the prevailing U.S. impulse is to wait out the fighting, on the assumption that the two sides should bloody each other into a kind of mutual submission before the U.S. intervenes again. But over the past 18 months, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have shown much willingness to give in, which has left the U.S. watching helplessly as the conflict has exploded beyond control. "What else can we do?" asks one frustrated White House aide. "What other...
...Bush continued his criticism of Arafat for not reining in "terrorist networks," but also called on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories and halt settlement activity. Bush also announced that he would be sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region to take over where U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni had failed, in trying to arrange peace negotiations. Though it gave a positive response to Bush's new intervention and allowed Zinni to visit Arafat at his headquarters, Israel kept its stranglehold on the West Bank towns...