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...sidelines, the Bush Administration recently tiptoed into the peacemaking fray--to contain the combat between the Israelis and Palestinians but also to try to assuage Arab resistance to a U.S. military campaign against Iraq. Palestinian and Israeli sources told TIME that both Sharon and Arafat called Secretary of State Colin Powell as Israel mobilized its forces last Friday. When Bush woke up Friday morning in Crawford, he was informed of the Israeli assault during his daily national-security briefing. After that, he led an hour-long video teleconference on the crisis with his national-security team. He decided that...
...attack that killed 26 people at a Passover celebration a week earlier. Bush continued his criticism of Arafat for not reining in "terrorist networks," but also called on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories and halt settlement activity. Bush also announced that he would be sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region to take over where U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni had failed, in trying to arrange peace negotiations. Though it gave a positive response to Bush's new intervention and allowed Zinni to visit Arafat at his headquarters, Israel kept its stranglehold on the West Bank towns...
Secretary of State Colin Powell’s trip to Israel today is a hopeful sign that the Bush administration has realized its responsibility in the conflict. However, Bush must also give Powell this message to take with him: We oppose terrorism in all its forms, but we also understand that we cannot only attack the military and political organizations that support terrorism. Especially in places like Palestine, terrorism can only be stemmed by a humanitarian battle. In the same way that we continue to fight terrorism in Afghanistan by providing aid and political support to the nascent Afghan nation...
Emery had been assigned to cover West’s potential move to Princeton. As he reported the story, Emery called Colin A. Palmer, a history professor who is also acting director of Princeton’s African American studies program...
With the flames of the Middle East threatening to burn any bridge to peace, President Bush on Thursday dispatched Colin Powell to the region to play fireman. The President urged Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities reoccupied over the past week in response to a wave of suicide bombings that has killed more than 120 Israelis this year alone. He slammed Yasser Arafat for failing to fight terrorism and demanded that Palestinian leaders step forward and produce results once Israel moves back...