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...provide personal service to Willie Nelson, Run-D.M.C. and Limp Bizkit, among others--loaning them equipment and stocking the rare and vintage instruments they favor. The store's reputation as a hangout for pros creates a "cool factor" that is seductive to musical neophytes and serious hobbyists, says Sharon Zackfia, an analyst at William Blair...
...Ramallah and Gaza, and forcing the region?s preeminent moderate Arab leader, Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to warn that dire consequences would follow an Arafat expulsion and that - notwithstanding U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline him - ''no Palestinian prime minister will succeed without the help of Arafat.? Even Sharon?s former foreign minister, Shimon Peres, warned that expulsion would be an ?historic mistake? that would only strengthen Arafat?s grip on Palestinian politics. Despite having long ago been branded ?irrelevant? by Sharon and banished from the diplomatic itineraries of the Bush administration, Thursday?s actions capped a month-long...
...arguments for restraint on Arafat are well known in Israel, all the way up to Sharon?s cabinet. Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky wrote in Haaretz on Tuesday that "We must face the simple truth: Arafat has unsurpassed stature in Palestinian society. Palestinians view him as a national hero. And since Arafat's strength is sustained by his opposition to Israel, his exile would only fortify his position." An exiled Arafat would retain the leadership of the Palestinian national movement, thereby rendering redundant the Palestinian Authority, which would be unlikely to survive his departure. Simply put, no one would be willing...
...Sharon's preferred method of dealing with Arafat, in the new situation, may be to expel him from the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli media report that Israeli officials sense a softening in the Bush administration's opposition to such a move, and Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz will visit Washington next week to petition the Bush administration to lift its prohibition against physically removing Arafat. It's unlikely, however, that the PA would survive such a move - and Qureia appeared to be warning that the Palestinians themselves won't try to keep it going if the leadership...
...puts the very notion of a two-state solution to the conflict beyond reach. That would leave Israel in permanent control of millions of Palestinians with no democratic rights in the state that governs them - a situation dovish Israeli commentators warn would be akin to apartheid South Africa. Even Sharon himself warned his countrymen in May, "You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation. To hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation, I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians...