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Sending Colin Powell in to replace Anthony Zinni as the Bush administration's Mideast envoy isn't enough. The secretary of state has to come armed with a new approach. The reason General Zinni's mission failed wasn't the fact that he's not a high-level cabinet officer; it was that he wasn't given the tools with which to do the job. Washington reportedly had insisted that Zinni push for a cease-fire without any link to negotiations over the political future of the West Bank and Gaza. That was never going to work - even Israel...
...Bush administration's own zero-tolerance-for-terrorism ideology may have inclined it to give tacit backing to Sharon's operation once Arafat balked at the cease-fire terms offered by General Anthony Zinni. But the bloody chaos that unfolded as Israeli tanks and troops once again took control of towns housing almost one million Palestinians sparked such fierce international outrage that the administration found its wider interests under threat. As anti-American demonstrations burned across the Arab and Muslim world, the broader goals of the U.S. war on terrorism were plainly in jeopardy. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein...
...immediately clear how the administration expects Powell to succeed where Zinni failed. President Bush's unambiguous call on Sharon to withdraw will almost certainly force the Israeli leader to comply, but the absence of a clear time frame - and the fact that Powell will arrive only next week - is being interpreted in Israel as tacit U.S. approval for a few more days of militar action...
...easy. One of the toughest issues will be the fate of Arafat. Sharon has made isolating Arafat a key objective of the current operation, and has openly declared his preference for exiling the Palestinian leader. On Wednesday the Israeli leader even turned down a U.S. request for General Zinni to be allowed to visit Arafat in his besieged compound, although he relented on Thursday. Despite its exasperation and fury at Arafat, the Bush administration has maintained until now that Arafat shouldn't be exiled because he remains an indispensable player in any peace effort...
...pressure increases on Yasser Arafat to end the violence that threatens to scuttle the peace mission of Anthony Zinni, even a photo op with the U.S. mediator (see below) could not rouse the Palestinian leader to a show of optimism. Many in Israel are just as disillusioned with Arafat as he appears to be with Zinni. A growing number of right-wing politicians want Israel to put an end to Arafat's regime. According to an Israeli newspaper poll, 66% of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party believe that Arafat should be kicked out of the West Bank...