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...operation, Tuesday's events reinforced the notion that Washington retains an ability to influence Israel's actions - and that's bad news for a Bush administration that had hoped to retreat from the intimate mediating role in the Middle East established by President Clinton. The moderate Arab regimes that already have peace agreements with Israel are increasingly alarmed by the escalating violence - which threatens not only regional stability, but also their own domestic political equilibrium - and have urged Washington to take a more active role. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan have recently visited the White House touting a peace...
...Jamil Hamad: I think the Israelis made a mistake, and that mistake was what caused the Americans to protest. Because it was a mistake that the Americans could not ignore - occupying another country is crossing a certain boundary. When Saddam Hussein entered Kuwait, that led most of the Arab states to support the U.S. in the Gulf War. So the Americans could not keep silent in the face of what had happened in Gaza, even if they believed Israel had been provoked by the mortar attacks...
...they at all concerned about creating the impression among Palestinians and Arab leaders that when Washington called a halt, the Israelis retreated? After all, that could raise pressure on the administration to resume President Clinton's "referee" role, from which they'd been trying to retreat...
...There is a sense in which that's true. But the important thing is the matter of degree. The U.S. would like to see our Arab allies, such as Egypt and Jordan, do more to influence the Palestinians. Everyone has a role to play here, and the intifada causes them domestic political trouble, too. And those states are obviously asking the U.S. to do what it can to restrain Sharon...
...members voted against - Shimon Peres and Ephraim Sneh, both of the Labor party. But neither was complaining about the principle of hitting the Syrians. They were concerned about the timing of the air strike, because it occurred during the visit to Israel of Jordan's foreign minister - the first Arab minister to visit here since the intifada began. And Peres and Sneh though this might not be the best moment to drop bombs on the Syrians. Even then, a number of other Labor party ministers voted...