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...Arafat, too, may have made his position even more difficult. He's drawn every single Arab and Muslim around the world into the Palestinian problem, and that's going to restrict his own freedom of movement. A Tunisian sheik in Kashmir is now saying, 'That's my Jerusalem.' Every Arab who sent a check to support Arafat in this uprising will expect him to respect their concerns...
...same Palestinian and Arab public opinion that restrained Arafat from accepting the deal offered him at Camp David has hardened considerably following 10 weeks of violence in which more than 300, mostly Palestinian, lives have been lost. And with the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a double-digit lead in opinion polls, Prime Minister Ehud Barak is unlikely to sweeten his offer. Netanyahu moved a step closer to overcoming legal obstacles to his candidacy Wednesday when Israel's parliament voted to allow any citizen to contest the special election triggered by Barak's resignation. The bill must pass two more votes...
...would expect from a man who used to be a high school principal and wrote his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing Western decadence and advocating a return to Muslim values...
Ehud Barak didn't become Israel's most decorated soldier by acting predictably. He earned his stripes in such daring escapades as the dramatic 1976 hostage rescue at Uganda's Entebbe airport and the assassination of key PLO leaders in distant Arab capitals. Now the plucky little commando appears to have sprung a nasty booby trap on his domestic political foes - by announcing his resignation Saturday, and calling a new election that must be held within two months...
...under no illusion that when he decides to return to the negotiating table, they'll be blacklisted by the Palestinian Authority. And, of course, the PA's record of corruption makes many ordinary Palestinians skeptical about how much of the aid currently being promised by the West and the Arab world will ever reach the Palestinian street...