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...message will not come as a surprise. "The feeling in the region is that a strike is definitely coming," says an Arab diplomat. Cheney isn't expected to provide details of the U.S. strategy against Saddam, though that may be because the Bush camp hasn't yet reached a consensus. "The dirty little secret of Iraq is that there is no plan," says a senior Administration official. "Where our thinking is on Iraq is all out in the public." The Administration is in no rush to act. A British diplomat says "all the vibes from Washington" suggest that any military...
Washington can count on even less assent from Arab leaders, who fear that with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raging and Washington widely seen as Israel's abettor, a U.S. campaign against Iraq would incite unrest in their streets. "Emotions are already boiling," says an Arab diplomat. "A second war will be more than the region can take." Turkey and Syria, which border Iraq, are worried that Saddam's fall could tempt the Kurds who live in Iraq's north to secede, thereby emboldening their Kurdish populations to agitate for autonomy...
...after monitoring the bloodletting on TV throughout the week. He had an additional motivation. Vice President Dick Cheney plans to travel through the Middle East this week in an effort to line up support for the Administration's plan to try to remove Iraq's Saddam Hussein from power. Arab leaders will surely try to focus the conversation on the exploding Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With Zinni heading to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Cheney can argue that the Administration is on the case and move on to the topic of Iraq...
Arafat too had a special incentive for the concession that he made. He is eager to attend a summit of Arab leaders in Beirut later this month so that he can show he remains relevant on the world stage. But since December, the Israelis have kept him pinned inside the West Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the arrest of all suspects in the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. With the detention of the final fugitive, Majdi Rimawi, Sharon has lost much of his justification for confining Arafat to Ramallah, but he will have to convince right-wingers...
...course of the week, the Israeli army reinvaded or bombed 15 Palestinian towns. Among the targeted sites were several camps housing refugee families from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, compounds that are often hotbeds of militancy. The army's operations inside these camps are intended in part to enable soldiers to arrest bombmakers and gunmen, though the wanted men are often able to flee in time. A greater benefit of these operations, TIME has learned from senior Israeli officers, is to force the gunmen from the Tanzim, a Fatah militia, to exert their energy by defending their homes...