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...continue to conduct raids inside PA territory, and that Israeli restraint is the key to any success. But given the relative certainty that one or all of the militant groups will sooner or later send suicide bombers to veto the latest peace plan, such restraint may prove difficult for Sharon to maintain and for the Bush administration to request. The security situation may remains a huge obstacle to getting started along the "roadmap," and a major trip wire every step of the way after that...
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...Even many Israelis sniggered last year when President Bush used the term "man of peace" to describe Ariel Sharon, legendary warrior and champion of the settler movement who had spent most of the previous decade ferociously opposing the Oslo Accords. But Sharon has kept everybody guessing as to his intentions by speaking the language of peace, promising to make "painful concessions" after the Palestinians stop all violence - and, most recently, causing consternation even in his own party by uttering the taboo word "occupation" to describe Israel's rule over the 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Such...
...from the international community, certainly has important differences with the PA president, most importantly over the 30-month armed intifada which Abbas sees as having brought the Palestinians nothing but misery and international isolation. The new prime minister wants the violence stopped and negotiations resumed, believing that even if Sharon is unwilling to grant the Palestinians' bottom-line demands, stopping terror will swing international (and even Israeli) public opinion back behind the Palestinian pursuit of statehood in the 1967 territories...
...real dispute between Sharon and the Palestinians is over land. The Israeli leader has made clear he accepts the inevitability of a Palestinian state and knows Israel can't sustain a regime of occupation over the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. The question is where the boundaries between such a state and Israel will be drawn, and what will become of the settlements Israel has built on the territories conquered in 1967 which are the basis of the new Palestinian state...