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...Security Council resolution demanding Israeli withdrawal from Ramallah--which, under an agreement signed by Israel, has been under Palestinian self-rule since 1995. But at a hastily convened press conference in Crawford Saturday, the President pointedly did not call for a pullout, instead saying Arafat and Arab leaders "could do a lot more" to stop Palestinian terror. "I firmly believe that we can achieve a peace in the region," he said...
Meanwhile, the region seemed about to come undone. "If Arafat is killed, all hell will break loose," a senior Arab diplomat told TIME. "You can say goodbye to the peace process for 10 years." Before storming into Arafat's compound, the Israelis blared over a loudspeaker to those inside, "Lay down your arms and come out." Israeli officials told TIME that the Egoz Battalion, a highly trained unit of commandos, led the room-to-room raid through Arafat's compound. Within 24 hours, the Israelis had arrested 150 Palestinians--including fugitives on their wanted list--wounded 40 Arafat bodyguards...
...Israeli invasion came hours after 22 Arab countries endorsed a peace proposal by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah that, for the first time in history, offers Israel normal relations with all Arab states, albeit in exchange for Israel's withdrawal from all territories occupied in the 1967 war and its agreement that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to homes in what is now Israel. But any Arab-Israeli comity created by the Arab League's announcement disintegrated on Friday. Israeli Cabinet members agreed that the Beirut summit was a step toward Arab acceptance of Israel's legitimacy, but the terms...
...Arab diplomats interviewed by TIME accused the Israeli Prime Minister of deliberately sabotaging the Arab peace overture with his attack on Arafat. In an interview with TIME, Abdullah called Sharon's assault on Arafat "a brutal, despicable, savage, inhumane and cruel action." He continued, "The acts we are witnessing represent the views of a criminal who has blood on his hands," and he vowed, "Palestinian resistance to the occupation will continue...
...Israelis feel they exercised admirable restraint by not attempting to expel or kill Arafat. They also held their fire until the Arab summit had concluded. Sharon aides say the Prime Minister held back from removing Arafat not only on the advice of his commanders but also out of a sense that the Bush Administration doesn't yet want him to take an irrevocable step. "Washington was in the back of his mind," says a Sharon aide...