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...Warnings by even its most amenable Arab allies against attacking Iraq while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains on the boil may be prompting the Bush administration to avoid allowing its own desire to be rid of Arafat become an obstacle to progress. But the fact that a figure as influential as Rumsfeld was willing to go on record so strongly at odds with administration policy over Israeli settlements in the occupied territories - and even the very designation of those territories as occupied - suggests that the administration's Middle East policy is likely to remain a cacophony of divergent voices, thereby...
...City two weeks ago. For Hamas, of course, a cease-fire would be a temporary, tactical move, which they'd be ready to reverse the moment Israel took any action they deemed worthy of retaliation. Unlike the PA whose very survival depends in part on the Americans, Europeans and Arab states, Hamas has the luxury of allowing its actions to be dictated by the sentiment of the Palestinian street, which is unlikely to show much patience for a Gaza-first strategy...
Because of its size and clout in the Arab world, Saudi Arabia is capable of playing a role in the Middle East peace process. President Bush consults regularly with Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto Saudi ruler, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Saudis' influence is limited. Though Abdullah has dangled normalized relations with Israel in exchange for a Palestinian state, only Washington has the credibility to drag the two sides to the negotiating table...
Most immediately, that means Iraq. The royal family would love to see Saddam Hussein gone, but it has no interest in taking the political risk of joining an attack on another Arab country while the Saudi public is agitated over the Palestinian problem. At one stage, the Saudis privately indicated a willingness to support a military campaign--at a minimum, the Pentagon would expect permission to use CAOC--if the region cools off and Saddam refuses to admit weapons inspectors. But Saudi officials told TIME that today the government is unlikely to offer even that much help. Says a Saudi...
...Thank God I have theater for my therapy. If I don't have theater, I would take a gun and shoot many people." NORMAN ISSA, Arab-Israeli actor with the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa, an actors' group committed to partnership between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, on his divided feelings...