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...told the President the following: In our first meeting about three years ago, I accepted your request not to harm Arafat physically ... but I am released from that pledge." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, recounting what he told President Bush at their recent meeting in Washington regarding an earlier pledge not to harm Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
Hundreds of outraged Palestinians quickly crowded around the wreckage, some waving bloodstained clothing lifted from the gutted car, others covering their palms in the blood that had pooled inside. Muhammed Barakeh, a left-wing Arab member of the Israeli Assembly, charged that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered the strike to bolster his standing with rightist supporters. But an Israeli military spokesman countered that Rantisi had been "directly responsible for the deaths of scores of Israelis." The assassination came just hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli guard at a Gaza border crossing. Hamas...
...concerned, Sharon and Bush can decide to cancel Ramadan. But that doesn't mean that Muslims will not fast." SAEB EREKAT, senior Palestinian negotiator, disparaging Bush's endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to vacate the West Bank while allowing some Jewish settlements to remain...
...political decline of the Palestinian Authority may now have entered its terminal phase. Its administrative and security structures have largely collapsed in the course of the intifada, and its institutional purpose - the completion of Oslo - appears to have outlived itself. Sharon has no intention of negotiating a settlement with the PA leadership. The PA's decline has been accompanied by the growing preeminence of Hamas and likeminded elements in Fatah, and it is that alliance that looks most likely to fill the political vacuum in Gaza once the Israelis withdraw. It is the prospect of the green and white banners...
...many Iraqis, more so since they became an occupied people themselves. Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin drew a firestorm of criticism across the political spectrum in Iraq, and became a rallying point for anti-American violence that bridged the Shiite-Sunni divide. Signing off on Sharon's settlement policy and preemptively trashing the longstanding Arab shibboleth of a Palestinian "right of return" is unlikely to win the U.S. many friends in Iraq or among its neighbors - and right now, it could use a few more...