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...Israel and Palestine. After the tragic attacks of 9/11, most Americans have been asking, "Why do they hate us?" The answer, several centuries in the making, surrounds how the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, as a close friend of Israel and a strong business partner with the Arab world, has left this country in the same no-win situation Israelis and Palestinians have found themselves in for hundreds of years...
...fight against international terrorism, then it must allow Israel to proceed with its campaign in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. To tie Israel’s hands at this critical juncture will only put the country at risk of falling, which is exactly what the surrounding Arab states and anti-Semites of the world desire: to drive the Jews into...
...policy speeches and when he does they're usually on issues the Right holds dear, like sanctioning China for human rights abuses or maintaining the embargo on Cuba. DeLay aides say their boss worried that the White House was getting too much pressure from Israel's enemies in the Arab world, many of whom were demanding that Sharon lift his military siege of the occupied territories. "DeLay wanted to draw a line in the sand" and stake out the position of Republican conservatives in the crisis, said one of his staffers. "The White House needed to hear from...
...Sharon's campaign. In the European Union, Israel finds itself the target of a storm of protest and a clamor for sanctions more familiar to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s. And while the doves in Sharon's cabinet have pressed for a positive response to the Arab League's overture offering normalization of relations in exchange for withdrawal to 1967 boundaries, instead they've seen even those Arab states with which Israel currently has peace treaties threatening to cancel them in response to the Israeli campaign...
...President Bush may have convinced himself that Ariel Sharon is a "man of peace," but the Israeli leader has made clear in recent days that his idea of peace is not one compatible with that of even the most moderate of Palestinian and Arab interlocutors. Sharon told his cabinet Sunday that not a single Israeli settlement in the occupied territories would be uprooted as long as he was prime minister. That would likely nix any prospect of serious political negotiations with the Palestinians or their Arab neighbors, who maintain that the basic requirement for peace involves Israel withdrawing to something...