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...Colin Powell will soon meet with Yasir Arafat, who holds the singular distinction of being the only sponsor of terrorism to have won a Nobel Peace Prize. If I may be so bold as to give counsel to a secretary of state, I propose that Powell issue the following ultimatum
Since his Mideast mediation mission was announced a week ago, the region has waited for Colin Powell's arrival in Israel. Waited impatiently as the Secretary of State's meandering journey took him to Morocco, Egypt, Spain and Jordan before arriving in Jerusalem on Thursday. "Don't you think it was more important to go to Jerusalem first?" Morocco's King Mohammed VI said in an unusual public rebuke during Powell's first stop. Many commentators, both Arab and Israeli, saw in Powell's tarrying a deliberate strategy by the Bush administration to give Ariel Sharon more time to finish...
...keeping with this second task, we can also expect a certain trajectory for the diplomatic narrative, as America’s long-awaited intervention begins today when Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives in Jerusalem. As an example of the one-sided, disingenuous role America has played, take retired Marine General Anthony Zinni’s cease-fire plan that was presented on March 25 and recently leaked. The plan put off negotiations on a political settlement and allowed Israel to continue to attack the institutions of the Palestinian Authority. This plan was unacceptable because if another suicide bombing were...
...warning the paper that thanks to rising oil prices, "we're not out of the economic woods yet." And so the burgeoning Middle East war has not only interrupted Bush's war on terrorism, it's threatening to do the same to his economic recovery. And as Bush and Colin Powell, having finally decided to get involved, shout "now" at Ariel Sharon and get only "soon" in return, the White House is facing its other great fear - wading into the world's least solvable conflict only to get embarrassed...
Ariel Sharon has started moving his troops, but not enough to make it any easier for Colin Powell to navigate his Middle East minefield. And what emerges when the dust settles on Israel's "Operation Defensive Wall" may make prospects for a sustainable truce even more remote...