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...Monday Tariq Aziz, Hussein’s deputy prime minister, conveyed a letter to the U.N. declaring that Iraq would submit after all to the unconditional return of U.N. weapons inspectors, who have been barred since 1998. Although many of our jittery European and Arab allies pounced on that glimmer of hope, it is clear they are once again being misled—and that, as both Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have said, they are being fooled by a Hussein “ploy.” Following Bush’s speech, world...
...have-nots” (itself a curious conclusion, given that the hijackers of Sept. 11 were educated, middle-class residents of first-world countries, and that the vast majority of the “have-nots,” like those in non-Arab Africa, East and South Asia, and South America, have no special desire to blow us up), Kilfoyle declares that Europeans “look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst [the American] administration appears set on a unilateral approach...” He doesn’t go on to say exactly...
...unlikely to stop terror attacks). By Sunday, Israel had ceased demolition activities and opened talks over resolving the standoff. The Bush Administration is also trying to head off a Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli action, because using its veto in support of Israel won't help win Arab converts to the cause of regime-change in Baghdad. But resolving the standoff won't be easy: Israel is demanding the surrender of some 50 wanted men inside Arafat's HQ; the Palestinian leader has rejected that demand and insists on security as well as political talks with the Israelis. Plainly...
...Bank-wide clampdown, appears to have earned the Palestinian leader a temporary reprieve from the mounting challenge to his diktat within his own Fatah organization. Of even more immediate concern to the Bush administration was the return of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis to the top of the agenda of Arab governments and of the UN Security Council - at a moment when Washington wants them to focus exclusively on Iraq. And the new siege had drawn thousands of armed and unarmed Palestinians into the streets at the weekend to risk their lives in defying Israeli curfews to protest in support...
...Back then the Bush Administration was forced reluctantly into the fray to attempt a mediation. Vice President Cheney had toured Arab capitals in April hoping to drum up support for action against Iraq, and had been told everywhere he went that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis was a far greater, and more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...