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...Arafat has no insurance policy." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, suggesting that Israel might attempt to attack the Palestinian leader...
...chairman. He counted himself a true believer in Hamas but said the rising tide of votes came from the 35% of "undecideds" who have turned to Hamas out of profound frustration. Their hopes for an independent future have been thwarted by everyone: the Palestinian Authority, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, the U.S., the U.N. "No one helps us," he said. "Hamas' rising strength is testimony to the bitter disappointment of all Palestinians," a way to say no to all the failures. Dr. Jamal alZebba, 47, another member of the engineers' union, who was educated for 12 years in the U.S., voiced...
...killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin - and that could cause problems for the U.S. in Iraq and the rest of the Arab world. The Bush administration has typically set "red lines" for Israel in terms of its handling of the Palestinians, and while Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has systematically pushed back those red lines over the past three years, he has tended to avoid crossing them. Sharon has repeatedly made clear, for example, that the reason he has refrained from assassinating Yasser Arafat is U.S. pressure. The administration knew of the Israeli desire to eliminate Sheikh Yassin...
...Holy Land can't be used as an excuse to delay desperately needed reforms throughout the region. President Bush's European allies, first among them Britain's Tony Blair, have long warned that the Bush administration's failure to intervene more forcefully, and its apparent backing of Ariel Sharon's strategy for dealing with the Palestinians, undermine U.S. efforts in the wider Middle East. The fallout from the assassination of Sheikh Yassin may yet test both propositions...
...under-zealous pursuit of a peaceful settlement in Israel, any plan he proposes for the Middle East is bound to be regarded suspiciously. The damage to our reputation wrought by the Iraq war will be hard to fix, but the president must make a credible effort to get Sharon and the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table. Until he does, the GME initiative will...