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...reason Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas will meet with President Bush is the same reason the two are suddenly talking about implementing a sequence of steps designed to achieve an as-yet undefined Palestinian statehood within two years: both men know better than to cross the White House. Still, President Bush's summit with the prime ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, scheduled to be held next week in Jordan, is a calculated gamble. It is designed to revive of a peace process, and realize the pledge made by President Bush to Arab and European allies ahead...
...only Jewish student club on campus, was banned by the CSU in an emergency midnight meeting with not even half of council present. Due process, guaranteed in the CSU’s own constitution was waved aside. One doesn’t have to be a supporter of Ariel Sharon to see the injustice in such a decision...
...ensure he fails - hardly surprising since the U.S. has made clear that Abbas's success would mean oblivion for the aging Palestinian leader. But this is far more than a personality clash between Arafat and Abbas: If it were that simple, Israel's intelligence chiefs would not be warning Sharon's government against any move to expel Arafat from the West Bank in response to the latest attacks. Arafat's personal agenda may be helped by the defiance of Palestinian militant groups who refuse to be disarmed by Abbas, but their hard line is not of his making...
...Sharon, for his part, has studiously avoided tipping his own hand, preferring to discuss only the security questions and hinting vaguely at his willingness to make "painful concessions" once all Palestinian violence has ended, while at the same time as signaling his right-wing political base that he has no intention of evacuating a single settlement. Despite the clear divergence with the U.S. position, Sharon has studiously avoided conflict with the White House, although where such conflict has arisen he has relied on the U.S. domestic political equation and the divisions within the Bush administration to walk Washington towards...
...down the road. That's exactly what he promised such key Iraq-coalition partners as Britain and Spain, as well as Arab allies who openly or quietly backed the invasion. It may be what aides most concerned about Washington's global alliances are urging him to do. But pressuring Sharon to do anything he's not inclined to do at a time when Israel is facing terror attacks risks alienating two key domestic political constituencies - the traditional Jewish pro-Israel lobby, and even more importantly, the Christian conservative movement whose own Zionist ideology is hostile to the idea of Israel...